id: 133089 accession number: 1955.49.7.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.49.7.b updated: 2022-03-23 09:00:44.959000 Bodhisattva Samantabhadra Purifies the Path to Enlightenment, with Manjushri: Folio 348 (verso), 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.b title: Bodhisattva Samantabhadra Purifies the Path to Enlightenment, with Manjushri: Folio 348 (verso), 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: --- 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: Blue-clad monks were said to visit prostitutes, drink liquor, and practice extreme tantric rituals. digital description: The painting in the center shows a righteous bodhisattva tossing aside a blue-skinned heretic, while an impious blue-clad monk sits behind them, the next to be overpowered by the righteous one. In the painting on the left, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Manjushri, brandishes his sword, and at the far right, a Buddhist priest (Vajracharya) sets fire to a Hindu sage in a rocky landscape. 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. 5-7, 9-10, 13-14 url: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11040183 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.7.b/1955.49.7.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.7.b/1955.49.7.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.49.7.b/1955.49.7.b_full.tif