Shakyamuni Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness his Enlightenment
1000–1100s
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Shakyamuni Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness his Enlightenment, 1000–1100s. Northeast India. Kaolinite; overall: 8.2 x 6.1 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1965.27 Kaolinite is a mineral that is actually a type of clay.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- Kaolinite
- Medium
- kaolinite
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8.2 x 6.1 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: At the top: Om muni muni mahamuni Shakyamunya svaha. Below: Ye dharma hetu prabhava hetu tesam tathagata hya vadat Translation: Inscription on back in Newari script of the 12th century. At the top: Hail to the sage, the sage, the great sage Shakya. Below: Of all dispositions proceeding from a cause, the Tathagata has explained the cause (and he has explained their cessation also. This is a doctrine of the great Sramana.) Remark: The lower inscription is a Buddhist formula.
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1965.27
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1965, Sacred India, Text and Image in Southern Asia (Indian Painting and Himalayan rotation), <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 2, 2014-August 13, 2015).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 237 Himalayan
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