Samantabhadra Bodhisattva
Ink on paper
Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (detail)
Samantabhadra Bodhisattva
CHINA; Ming dynasty
Samantabhadra Bodhisattva sits in relaxed posture on a six-tusked white elephant. The Bodhisattva has unusually long hair that flows down to the waist in fine stands. Wearing a headdress topped with a flaming jewel, Samantabhadra gazes down at a palm leaf manuscript held in the right hand. The large nimbus encircling the upper body resembles a bright moon. The simple ink-washed background leaves the viewer unable to tell whether the Bodhisattva is in the air or on the ground, giving the picture a mysterious, dreamlike quality. In the lower left corner, there is an inscription by the artist, Li Lin, along with two seal imprints.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, page 790.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Samantabhadra Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, vol. 16, 2016, pp. 790.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Samantabhadra Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, 16:790.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z (Vol. 16, pp. 790).
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