Cleveland Museum of Art
Samantabhadra
- Date
- 1100s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In the last chapter of the Lotus Sutra, one of the principal Buddhist texts, the great Bodhisattva Samantabhadra is described advancing to earth, riding on a six-tusked elephant, and proclaiming himself protector of the faithful. More frequently, he is shown with Bodhisattva Manjusri as the attendants of Shakyamuni (the historical Buddha). This scroll is probably the left panel in a triptych (group of three paintings) portraying these deities. Samantabhadra holds a lotus with a sutra on top of the blossom.
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