Cleveland Museum of Art
White-Robed Guanyin
Jueji YongzhongLinkedCulture matchlcp-6d1af5259b9e
- Date
- late 1200s–early 1300s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Culture
- China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149390
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Guanyin, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion (Avalokiteshvara, in Sanskrit), reveals himself in many forms. According to Buddhist belief, one such manifestation is the white-robed Guanyin sitting on a rock on the island of Putuo (Potalaka, in Sanskrit), located along the coast not far from Ningbo, in Zhejiang Province, China. Here, the figure was swiftly drawn in only a few ink lines. The inscription above is by Zhongfeng Mingben, perhaps the most widely respected and influential Chan (Zen in Japanese) master in the Yuan dynasty. The artist’s signature is a single line below on the left: Huanzhu Yongzhong . The CMA collection includes a drawing by a Japanese priest, CMA 1978.47.2 , inspired by this composition.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1978: (Yamanaka and Company, Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1978–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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