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Seated Amitabha with Attendants
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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Seated Amitabha with Attendants

c. 1100s
Medium
Gum tempera and ink on sized cotton
Dimensions
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.)
Classification
Painting
Style
Tibetan Art
Origin
India, Western Himalayas, Lahul and Spiti, Tabo Monastery
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

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Provenance

Public
?–2000

(Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

2000–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Sourced Overview Evidence

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 (<em>dharma</em>), and the spiritual community (<em>sangha</em>). Its unfinished state reveals the fluid and accomplished ink drawing delineating all the forms. <br><br>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.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.

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