Seated Manjusri
1700–1799
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 254.9 x 1146 cm (100 3/8 x 451 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- Painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
About
Large-size Buddhist paintings dated to the Joseon period (1392–1910) were once hung behind Buddhist statues, attached to the wall. In the Buddhist pantheon of the Joseon period, Bodhisattva Manjusri appears as a deity attendant to Vairocana Buddha.