Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
late 1100s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, late 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork; height: 160 cm (63 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1969.130.1 This repository is one of a pair that once contained the scrolls of a religious text called the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. Two discs painted on the back have the sacred syllables representing the Buddha Shakyamuni and the Buddha Amida. Eight of the 16 benevolent but fierce looking deities who protect the text appear on the doors. The mate to this object is in the Nara National Museum in Japan.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Lacquer
- Formatted Medium
- lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork
- Dimensions
- height: 160 cm (63 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1969.130.1
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Stories From Storage, <em>An Historical Reunion: Daihannyakyo Buddhist Tabernacles from The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nara National Museum</em>. Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan. (April 29-May 21, 2000). Exhibition of the CMA repository newly conserved through the Research Institute for Cultural Properties program with the Nara National Museum's repository., <em>Gallery 237 (Japanese and Korean Art)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 23, 2013-November 17, 2015)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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