id:			133088
accession number:	1955.49.7.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.49.7.a
updated:		2025-02-09 02:08:24.486000

Bodhisattva Manjushri with two forms of Avalokiteshvara, folio 348 (recto) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array), 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 1955.49.7.a

title:				Bodhisattva Manjushri with two forms of Avalokiteshvara, folio 348 (recto) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)
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creation date:			1000–1100s
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1199
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Nepal
technique:	gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Average: 4.2 x 52.4 cm (1 5/8 x 20 5/8 in.)
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	inscription:	>> dharmamukhānyavakrāntānyabhūvan nānānayaiḥ //

atha khalu samantabhadro bodhisattvo mahāsattvaḥ sudhanaṃ śreṣṭhidārakametadavocat - dṛṣṭaṃ te kulaputra mama vikurvitam? āha - dṛṣṭamārya / api tu tathāgataḥ prajānan prajānīyāttāvadacintyamidaṃ vikurvitam / so 'vocat - ahaṃ kulaputra anabhilāpyānabhilāpyabuddhakṣetraparamāṇurajaḥsamān kalpān vicaritaḥ sarvajñatācittamabhilaṣamāṇaḥ / ekaikasmiṃśca mahākalpe 'nabhilāpyānabhilāpyabuddhakṣetraparamāṇurajaḥsamāstathāgatā ārāgitā bodhicittaṃ pariśodhayatā / ekaikasmiṃśca mahākalpe sarvatyāgasamāyuktāḥ sarvalokavighuṣṭā mahāyajñā yaṣṭāḥ / sarvasattvapratipādanā sarvajñatāpuṇyasaṃbhāratā / ekaikasmiṃśca mahākalpe anabhilāpyānabhilāpyabuddhakṣetraparamāṇurajaḥsamāstyāgā (Gv 426) mahātyāgāḥ kṛtāḥ, atyarthatyāgāḥ kṛtāḥ sarvajñatādharmānabhiprārthayatā
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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1955
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1955-
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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 752
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136

	Mace, Sonya Rhie. “Clearing the Course: Folio 348 of the Nepalese <em>Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra</em> in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>Religions </em>2020, 11(4), 183.
	page number: 	Reproduced: Figs. 1-4
	url:		https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11040183

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