£1,800.00
1 in stock
A brightly coloured and finely detailed Tibetan Thangka depicting the Buddhist deity, Manjushri Bodhisattva. Painted with distemper on cloth and mounted on a textile backing somewhat in the style of Chinese scroll paintings, with a further silk cover on the front. Inscribed on the back NA 5013 – ONER.
Image: 31 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.
With Silks: 52 x 29 1/2 to 36 in.
Manjushri is associated with ordinary intelligence and mental acuity as well as transcendent Wisdom.
Manjushri is the Bodhisattva of transcendent wisdom and is the oldest and most significant Bodhisattva in Mahayana literature. In his fundamental form he sits on a lotus holding a double-edged flaming sword (to cut through illusion) in his right hand and a blooming lotus that supports the manuscript of the Prajnaparamita Sutra (to revealing the transcendent wisdom of Buddha’s teaching) in the left hand.
