Amitabha
(item no. 118)

Central Tibet

1800 - 1899

Gelug Lineage

68.58x48.26cm (27x19in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.# P1994.21.3)

 


Amitabha, Buddha (Tibetan: o pag me, sang gye. English: the Enlightened One of Immeasurable Light). Seated in the pureland of Sukhavati, he is surrounded by the Eight Great Bodhisattvas. Various buddhas fill the back and foregrounds.

Jeff Watt 9-2000


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Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery VI
Buddhist Deity: Amitabha Buddha (Nirmanakaya)



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