Guiding Bodhisattva Off to paradise. This beautiful painting on silk made between 850 and 900 C
Guiding Bodhisattva Off to paradise. This beautiful painting on silk made between 850 and 900 CE shows a guiding bodhisattva leading a Tang-dynasty aristocratic lady (who has passed on) to a paradise. They are both floating on a swirling cloud, headed off to a pure land pictured at the top left.This painting is in hieratic scale, where the important figures are bigger and the less important are smaller.Now on view in Cave Temples of Dunhuang at the Getty Center through September 4. -- source link
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