id: 133088 accession number: 1955.49.7.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.49.7.a updated: 2020-11-04 20:42:29.223000 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1000-1100s creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1199 current location: 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: 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 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- 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: A book on a blue lotus is just over the left shoulder of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Manjushri. digital description: The Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Compassion sit in majesty, with Manjushri in the preaching gesture in the center, being honored by two worshipers. His mandorla dances with flames, and tongues of flames encircle its border. Two different forms of Avalokiteshvara are in the flanking paintings, a two-armed and a four-armed form. 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: cat. no. 752 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136 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: Figs. 1-4 url: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11040183 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.7.a/1955.49.7.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.7.a/1955.49.7.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.7.a/1955.49.7.a_full.tif