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Preaching Amitabha with Avalokiteshvara and Manjushri, folio 186 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Date

Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)

Medium

Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf

Culture

Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The red Buddha Amitabha is seated under a tree on a throne in the middle of the upper page; two geese—his animal emblems—perch at the top on either side. A white and red bodhisattva are on either side. This manuscript, consisting of 188 double-sided folios, was calligraphed by a scribe at a monastery in northeastern India, commissioned by a monk from Nepal. Judging from the style of the paintings, they are the work of Nepalese artists.

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