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Description: | Offering thangka made of textile, wood and paint. Depicts Shakyamuni as Bodhisattva in sambhogakaya form with Shariputra and Maudgakyayanaputra. Extensive Tibetan inscription at bottom with rows of offerings: mandala offerings, eight auspicious signs, lights, etc. Block print on cotton.
The inscription tells us that this is work by a Chinese Buddhist monk named Liu Ha-shang resident at the temple of Yongli in Beijing.
The text, mainly a supplication to the Buddha and his two principal disciples, briefly highlights Buddha’s noble qualities of body, speech and mind, and ends by beseeching teachings and liberation for all sentient beings.
The standard of the Tibetan text in terms of vocabulary, style and grammar is as good as any prayer text written by Tibetan scholars or lamas, suggesting the author (artist or monk) had studied Buddhism for a long time within a Tibetan cultural environment.
The rows of offerings are set numbers of standard offerings made to one’s object of worship such as a lama and /or Buddhas and other deities. The first row displays the seven royal emblems; on the second row are the eight auspicious symbols; below this, eight types of food; below again, butter lamps and then another set of food offerings(?).
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn3838
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn3838
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn17351 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | cotton wood thangkas textiles paint ink | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-120106 | Go to resource |
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