id: 154787 accession number: 1989.363 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.363 updated: 2023-01-11 06:39:16.928000 Bodhisattva Vajraraksha, c. 900s. Western Tibet, c. 10th Century. Silver; overall: 10.8 x 7 cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.363 title: Bodhisattva Vajraraksha title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 900s creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 999 current location: 237 Himalayan creditline: Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin copyright: --- culture: Western Tibet, c. 10th Century technique: silver department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Tibetan Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 10.8 x 7 cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection opening date: 1990-07-05T04:00:00 The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990). title: Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies opening date: 2015-01-13T00:00:00 Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (organizer) (January 13-April 19, 2015); Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 22-October 19, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (William H. Wolff, Inc., New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin) date: ?–1971 footnotes: citations: Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1971–1989 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1989– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Once part of a set of sculptures depicting the enlightened beings who occupy a perfect world called the Diamond Realm (Vajradhatu), this figure holds the collar of his jacket in a gesture specific to him. An important practice in Tibetan Buddhism is the visualization of the Diamond Realm as described in texts and aided by artistic representations called mandalas. Bodhisattva Vajraraksha sits in the northern quadrant as a subsidiary figure to the Buddha Amoghasiddhi, who is green in color and quells fear. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990. page number: cat. no. 187, p. 91 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.363/1989.363_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.363/1989.363_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.363/1989.363_full.tif