id:			133089
accession number:	1955.49.7.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.49.7.b
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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)
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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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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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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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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.

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RELATED WORKS

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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. 5-7, 9-10, 13-14
	url:		https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11040183

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