Buddha Shakyamuni - Shakyamuni
(item no. 978)

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Uncertain Lineage

74.93x48.90cm (29.50x19.25in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.# P2000.15.3)

 


Shakyamuni Buddha and the Glorious Heap of Fruition Temple (Sanskrit: dhanyakataka). This is the famous location in South India where the Buddha Shakyamuni bestowed the Kalachakra initiation for the first time.

Jeff Watt 5-2005


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1800 - 1899 (19th Century) Part II



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