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"tombstone": "Vajrapani and Garuda, painting c. 1650; top and bottom borders c. 1350. Attributed to Choying Dorje, the Tenth Black Hat Karmapa (Tibetan, 1604\u20131674). Painting: gum tempera, gold, and silver on silk; lateral borders: silk damask with needleloop embroidery; top and bottom panels: embroidered silk, lead, and silver paper; curtain: silk tabby; dowels: wood, rawhide, and leather; overall: 114.6 x 44.5 cm (45 1/8 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1989.11",
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"title": "Vajrapani and Garuda",
"creation_date": "painting c. 1650; top and bottom borders c. 1350",
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"id": 211548,
"title": "When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art",
"description": "When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).",
"opening_date": "1997-10-19T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 387036,
"title": "Himalayan art rotation",
"description": "Himalayan art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 2014-November 2, 2015).",
"opening_date": "2014-12-22T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 674347,
"title": "Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation",
"description": "Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14, 2024-March 20, 2025).",
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"date": "?\u20131989",
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"did_you_know": "Vajrapani sometimes takes the form of Garuda, enemy of snakes.",
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"description": "The painting depicts the Buddhist protector who holds (pani) the thunder bolt (vajra) in his right hand. He kneels in reverence and holds his left hand in a gesture of salute. This unusual image appears to have been the vision of a Tibetan monastic patriarch known for creating his own inventive paintings and sculptures.
Sewn to the painting are Chinese damask borders and rare embroideries dating to the Chinese Yuan dynasty (1279\u20131368). They depict man-eagle figures known as Garuda, a form occasionally assumed by Vajrapani.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 58, pp. 190\u2013193",
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