id: 133072 accession number: 1955.49.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.49.2 updated: 2023-01-25 21:00:17.506000 Folio 94, from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array): Sudhana and the Rishi Bhishmottaranirgosha (recto); Text (verso), 1000–1100s. Nepal. Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf; average: 4.2 x 52.4 cm (1 5/8 x 20 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.49.2 title: Folio 94, from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array): Sudhana and the Rishi Bhishmottaranirgosha (recto); Text (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1000–1100s creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1199 current location: 237 Himalayan creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Nepal technique: gum tempera and ink on palm leaf department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Average: 4.2 x 52.4 cm (1 5/8 x 20 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation – November 2016-April 2017 opening date: 2016-11-07T05:00:00 Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation – November 2016-April 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2016-April 10, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1955 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1955- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The name of the pilgrim Sudhana means "Good Wealth," and he wears fine clothes and a crown. digital description: The subject of the painting on this page accords with the text in another section of the manuscript. It describes the encounter of the pilgrim Sudhana with a Hindu Brahmin sage (rishi) in the forest, who had reached an enlightened state. Many of Sudhana's teachers were not Buddhist monks, but were "true friends" from many walks of life. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 752 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 233 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n257 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 233 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n257 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 296 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n316 Mace, Sonya Rhie. “Clearing the Course: Folio 348 of the Nepalese Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Religions 2020, 11(4), 183. page number: Reproduced: Fig. 15 url: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11040183 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.2/1955.49.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.2/1955.49.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.2/1955.49.2_full.tif