Lineage Portrait of Buddhist Monks
1600–1699
- Medium
- hanging scroll mounted on a panel (framed); ink, color, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 171.5 x 99.7 cm (67 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
About
This painting features 24 Buddhist priests, likely of several generations and members of the same temple or school. The priests are depicted with attention to individual features and appearances, dressed in their formal garments. They may represent monks of the Ōbaku school, a form of Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism founded in Japan by Chinese émigré monks and their Japanese followers.