Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Architecture - Temple

མཆོད་རྟེན། ཁང་བཟོ་རིག་པ། 建筑学
(item no. 65371)
Origin Location China
Date Range 1700 - 1799
Lineages Gelug and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection Rubin Museum of Art
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Object/Concept

Interpretation / Description

(Also see Tibetan Buddhism at Ri bo rtse lnga/Wutai shan in Modern Times. Gray Tuttle, Columbia University. JIATS, no. 2 (August 2006), THL #T2723, 35 pp. (c) 2006 by Gray Tuttle, IATS, and THL).

See images of Wutaishan Mountain.

Related Items
Exhibition Appearances
Exhibition: Wutaishan, Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain
Exhibition: Faith & Empire - Art & Politics in Tibetan Buddhism

Thematic Sets
Subject: Geography (Four Sacred Mountains of China)
Subject: Five Major Sacred Places (Tibetan System)
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art (RMA): Main Page
Subject: Sacred Geography, Mountains & Pilgrimage Sites
Collection of RMA: Best of Collection 3
Subject: Site Locations - Mountains, Cityscapes & Temples
Region: Wutaishan (Five Peaked Mountain)
Subject: Cityscapes (Masterworks)
Subject: Stupa Pilgrimage Sites
Region: Wutaishan Mountain, Shanxi, China
Collection of RMA: China (Painting Masterworks)