id:			147934
accession number:	1974.35
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.35
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:02.850000

Buddha Amitābha with Two Attending Bodhisattvas, 1200s. China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; painting: 134 x 79.7 cm (52 3/4 x 31 3/8 in.); overall: 223 x 95.7 cm (87 13/16 x 37 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1974.35

title:				Buddha Amitābha with Two Attending Bodhisattvas
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creation date:			1200s
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1299
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
technique:	Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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measurements: Painting: 134 x 79.7 cm (52 3/4 x 31 3/8 in.); Overall: 223 x 95.7 cm (87 13/16 x 37 11/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	沙門善導
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	inscription:	觀世音菩薩
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	inscription:	大勢至菩薩
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1974
	opening date:   1975-03-11T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

	title:		Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting
	opening date:   1981-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

	title:		Korean Gallery 236 Rotation
	opening date:   2018-07-16T04:00:00
	<i>Korean Gallery 236 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 16, 2018-January 20, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).

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PROVENANCE

	(Nakanishi Bunzo, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1974
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1974-present
	date: 1974-
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wall description:
The supreme deities that rule over the Western Paradise—Amitābha (阿彌陀 in Chinese), Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin 觀音), and Mahāsthāmaprāpta (Dashizhi 大勢至)—are here enclosed within a circle of light. To secure entry into that paradise for Buddhist followers of the Pure Land sect, one must recite the phrase <em>namo amituofo</em> (南無阿彌陀佛, Homage to the Buddha Amitābha). Here the phrase is repeated 10 times in calligraphy above the figures, reinforcing the need for continual recitation.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 48, pp. 63-65
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	Shin, Junhyoung Michael. “The Face-to-Face Advent of the Amitābha Triad: A Fifteenth-Century Welcoming Descent.” <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em>, vol. 6, 2001, pp. 28–47.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 8, p. 40
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079712

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