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
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creation date:			c. 900s
creation date earliest:		900
creation date latest:		999
current location:		237 Himalayan
creditline:			Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
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culture:	Western Tibet, c. 10th Century
technique:	silver
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Tibetan Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 10.8 x 7 cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
	opening date:   1990-07-05T04:00:00
	<i>The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</i>. 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
	<i>Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies</i>. 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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(William H. Wolff, Inc., New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin)
	date: ?–1971
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	Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1971–1989
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1989–
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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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
	page number: 	cat. no. 187, p. 91
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