Buddha Shakyamuni
(item no. 90508)

Tibet

1700 - 1799

Uncertain Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art


 


Shakyamuni Buddha (Tibetan: sha kya tu pa, sang gye, English: the Enlightened One of the Shakya Clan) accompanied by two standing bodhisattvas, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara and Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava above. A host of identical buddhas surround the central figures.

Jeff Watt 5-2000


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