The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 17, 2024
Seated Amitabha with Attendants
c. 1100s
Image: 78.2 x 62.9 cm (30 13/16 x 24 3/4 in.); Overall: 100 x 66.7 cm (39 3/8 x 26 1/4 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
The red Buddha of the West, Amitabha, seated in meditation on his throne, is flanked by bodhisattvas. Above are two rows of monks who transmit his teachings, and along the bottom is a row of six adepts, skilled practitioners of magic and the recitation of mantras to reach enlightenment quickly. In front of his throne are the three flaming jewels of Buddhism: the Buddha, his teaching (dharma), and the spiritual community (sangha). Its unfinished state reveals the fluid and accomplished ink drawing delineating all the forms.This painting is one of the earliest surviving thangkas—devotional Buddhist paintings on cloth. It is from the region ruled by the Guge kings of western Tibet from the 900s to 1600s, now partially within the national borders of India.
- ?–2000(Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2000–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” October 6, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. Mentioned: p. 2-3 archive.org
- Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 11-August 21, 2022).Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 24-June 24, 2001).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.68