id: 161704 accession number: 2000.68 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.68 updated: 2021-06-04 00:30:44.266000 Seated Amitabha with Attendants, c. 1100s. Tibet, Western Himalayas, from Tabo Monastery, 12th century. Thanka: color on fabric; image: 78.2 x 62.9 cm (30 13/16 x 24 3/4 in.); overall: 100 x 66.7 cm (39 3/8 x 26 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 2000.68 title: Seated Amitabha with Attendants title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1100s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1200 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Tibet, Western Himalayas, from Tabo Monastery, 12th century technique: thanka: color on fabric department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Tibetan Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 78.2 x 62.9 cm (30 13/16 x 24 3/4 in.); Overall: 100 x 66.7 cm (39 3/8 x 26 1/4 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). --- 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." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This temple banner (thangka) with the seated image of Amitabha in the center flanked by enlighened beings called bodhisattvas, represents a slightly later version of the same western Tibetan style as the miniature painting of Preaching Buddha. This painting is unfinished, however, revealing very fluid and accomplished ink drawing underneath. Normally, once the colors were applied, the drawing would not have been visible. Here the artist got as far as applying only three basic colors: white (often used as the ground), red, and black. The painting dates to the 1100s, which makes it one of the earliest western Tibetan style thangkas known. Like the miniature painting (2000.67), this thangka relates to the museum's two 11th-century sculptures from the western Himalayas—the bronze Standing Buddha (1966.30) and the polychromed wooden sculpture of a Seated Buddha (1986.6). The paintings replicate the style found in the two sculptures. Both the Tabo and Tholing Monasteries, where the paintings were recovered, were founded by King Yesheö of Guge in the 11th century. --- 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/2000.68/2000.68_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.68/2000.68_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.68/2000.68_full.tif