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An Unusual Bodhisattva Painting Set

The over-all subject and context of these two bodhisattva paintings are not yet identified which makes it difficult to suggest how many compositions would make up the complete painting set. The central figure in the two compositions is likely to be Avalokiteshvara or Maitreya. It is also possible that the paintings belong to a set depicting the Eight Great Bodhisattvas.


Although strikingly Chinese in style, the two paintings here are very similar in many ways to the Dalai Lama Painting Set dated to the early 1800s.