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Bodhisattva Samantabhadra purifies the path to enlightenment, with Manjushri, folio 348 (verso) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)

Date: 1000–1100s
Medium: gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
Culture: Nepal
Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

The painting in the center shows a righteous bodhisattva tossing aside a blue-skinned heretic, while an impious blue-clad monk sits behind them, the next to be overpowered by the righteous one. In the painting on the left, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Manjushri, brandishes his sword, and at the far right, a Buddhist priest (Vajracharya) sets fire to a Hindu sage in a rocky landscape. Blue-clad monks were said to visit prostitutes, drink liquor, and practice extreme tantric rituals.

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