Amitabha Buddha
(item no. 911)

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Sakya Lineage

63.50x49.53cm (25x19.50in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.# P1999.29.6)

 
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Amitabha, Buddha (Tibetan: o pag me, sang gye. English: the Enlightened One of Immeasurable Light). Seated at the top are Shakyamuni Buddha and Amitayus both flanked by Sakya patriarchs (Tib.: je tsun gong ma). The eight great bodhisattvas attend at the lower right and left.

Jeff Watt 11-2000


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Buddhist Deity: Amitabha Buddha (Nirmanakaya)



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