Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
1175–1200
- Medium
- lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork
- Dimensions
- height: 160 cm (63 in.)
- Genre
- Lacquer
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
About
This repository is one of a pair that once contained the scrolls of a religious text called the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. Two discs painted on the back have the sacred syllables representing the Buddha Shakyamuni and the Buddha Amida. Eight of the 16 benevolent but fierce looking deities who protect the text appear on the doors.