Cleveland Museum of Art

Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra and Eleven Volumes of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra

Date

late 1100s

Medium

lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork

Culture

Japan, Heian period (794–1185)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This repository is one of a pair that once contained the scrolls of a religious text called the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra . Two discs painted on the back have the sacred syllables representing the Buddha Shakyamuni and the Buddha Amida. Eight of the 16 benevolent but fierce looking deities who protect the text appear on the doors. The mate to this object is in the Nara National Museum in Japan.

The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.