Cleveland Museum of Art
Vajradhara, Nairatmya, and mahasiddhas Virupa and Kanha
- Date
- c. 1450
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on cotton
- Culture
- Central Tibet, Ngor monastery
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136332
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The first in a series depicting the masters who transmitted the teachings on how to reach enlightenment, this painting begins at the upper left with the dark blue Vajradhara, who represents the essence of all Buddhas. The female enlightened being Nairatmya is seated at the upper right. She transmitted the teachings to Virupa, the brown-skinned Indian yogi at the lower left, in a vision; his disciple Kanha is at the lower right.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1960: (C.L. Bharany, Calcutta [Kolkata], India, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1960–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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