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Anonymous (17th/18th century)
A Large Painting of Vairocana

18 December 2017, 11:00 PST
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Anonymous (17th/18th century)

A Large Painting of Vairocana
Ink and color on silk, mounted on a hanging scroll, depicting the Buddha Vairocana seated in dhyanasana on an elaborately detailed red lotus throne, his hands in the uttarabodhi mudra of perfection, wearing a gold-bordered blue outer robe decorated with floating mountains and against a mandorla of radiating light, all beneath a canopy topped with flaming jewels and tied with bejeweled tassels, surrounded by multi-colored clouds.
55 1/2 x 27 3/4in (141 x 70.5cm)

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無款 大日如來像 設色絹本 立軸

Like the previous lot, this painting was likely created for a 'Water-Land Assembly,' an originally Tantric ritual described as a 'plenary mass' that became 'an important part of the Buddhist establishment's continuing and remarkably successful effort to maintain its influence in the face of competition from Daoism, Confucianism, and popular beliefs.' See Weidner et al, Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850-1850 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1994), 280-281.

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