id: 161703 accession number: 2000.67 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.67 updated: 2022-01-04 17:29:18.812000 Preaching Sakyamuni, 1000s. Western Tibet, Toling Monastery, 11th century. Miniature votive painting (tsai-kali); ink, color, and gold on paper; overall: 11.6 x 10.7 cm (4 9/16 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2000.67 title: Preaching Sakyamuni title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1000s creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1100 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Western Tibet, Toling Monastery, 11th century technique: miniature votive painting (tsai-kali); ink, color, and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Tibetan Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 11.6 x 10.7 cm (4 9/16 x 4 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style opening date: 2001-04-24T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 24-June 24, 2001). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; April 24-June 24, 2001. "Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an 'Early Western' Tibetan Style."
MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 15, p. 116, color repr. p. 30. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Buddhism was introduced to Tibet in the 7th century, but the persecution that followed in the 9th and 10th centuries destroyed all artifacts of the period. Consequently the earliest existing Buddhist art from Tibet dates to the 11th and 12th centuries, the so-called period of the Second Diffusion of Buddhism, yet few 11th- or 12th-century paintings survive. This miniature painting is one of these rare paintings. Not a manuscript illustration, it was conceived as a separate votive painting, a so-called tsa-kali. It was recovered from the Tholing Monastery, which was founded by Rinchensangpo (958-1055), the famous translator of Buddhist scriptures, who acted on the order of Yesheö, the king of Guge. Yesheö was also the father of "Lhatsun Nagaraja" (active 998-1026) whose name is inscribed on the museum's early Himalayan bronze statue of a Standing Buddha (1966.30)—one of the most important and beautiful Himalayan bronzes to survive. The museum's collection includes another important sculpture from the western Himalayas: the colorful wooden sculpture of a Seated Buddha (1986.6). The two sculptures date from the 11th century and provide a meaningful comparison with this painting, which replicates their style. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” October 6, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: Mentioned: p. 2-3 url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4354 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.67/2000.67_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.67/2000.67_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.67/2000.67_full.tif