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White-Robed Guanyin
Jueji YongzhongLinkedCulture matchlcp-6d1af5259b9e
- Date
- late 1200s–early 1300s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and gold on silk
- Culture
- China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149391
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The original model for this ink drawing of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion (Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit), is CMA 1978.47.1 . This drawing is a later copy with the same image of the White-Robed Guanyin, but in reverse. The inscription above reads: one of the 84,000 painted by the priest Insei . The inscription seems to indicate that the Japanese priest Insei repeatedly copied the image of the bodhisattva in an act of piety and to accumulate merit, as is promised in the Lotus Sutra for anyone who paints images of the Buddha, they “will achieve the Buddha path.” The priest’s name and seal need further study and identification. The bodhisattva's face and halo were delicately painted in gold.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1978: (Yamanaka and Company, Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1978–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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