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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
Object ID: 144301

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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.

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Provenance: Kamigamosha [Kamigamo Shrine], Kyoto, Japan | Jinkō'in, Kyoto, Japan | ?-1969: (Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1969-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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