Cinerary Urn with Amida’s Pure Land
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This urn once held someone’s ashes. It is decorated with images of the Pure Land of Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Life and Light. Heian-period devotees of Amida believed that if they called upon his name with sincerity at the moment of death, they would be born into his Pure L...
Artifact
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136480
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1960.55.a
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Terms
Culture
Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
Technique
gilt bronze
Medium
gilt bronze
Genre
Metalwork
Department
Japanese Art
Relations
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