Cleveland Museum of Art
Embroidered Welcoming Descent of Amida Triad
- Date
- 1400s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; silk and human hair embroidery
- Culture
- Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 142834
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The Buddha Amida arrives here to welcome a person to his Pure Land at the moment of death. A monk, a woman, and a child sit with their hands in prayer, and a beam of light emanating from Amida extends toward them. The inscription at the top indicates that the compassion of Amida Buddha always flows impartially to all those who recite his name, a quote from the Contemplation Sutra . The Contemplation Sutra is a sacred Buddhist text often used in Pure Land Buddhism.
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- Credit line
- Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection
- Provenance
- ?–1966: American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Collection, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1966–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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