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Source Description
This repository is one of a pair that once contained the scrolls of a religious text called the <em>Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra</em>. 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.
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400993
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Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
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400993
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Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
description
This repository is one of a pair that once contained the scrolls of a religious text called the <em>Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra</em>. 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.
date
late 1100s
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117246339
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Lacquer
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height: 160 cm (63 in.)
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Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
accession
1969.130.1
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lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork
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Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (大般若経厨子), late 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork; height: 160 cm (63 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1969.130.1
titleInOriginalLanguage
大般若経厨子
collection
Japanese Art
didYouKnow
The mate to this object is in the Nara National Museum in Japan.
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 57, no. 1, 1970, pp. 2–50.
page_number
Reproduced: no. 236, p. 35; Mentioned: p. 51
citation
“Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em>, vol. 24, 1970, pp. 86–117.
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Reproduced: fig. 8, p. 88; Mentioned: p. 87
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"New Oriental art galleries at Cleveland." <em>Apollo: A Journal of the Arts. </em>August 1970, Vol. 92, pp. 148-151.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 4, p. 149
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
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Reproduced: p. 371
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Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三. <em>Zaigai bijutsu</em> [在外美術 = Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1994.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 223, 236, no. 134
citation
Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
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Reproduced: pp. 188-189
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. <em>Knockouts: A Pocket Guide</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page_number
Reproduced: no. 88, p. 82; Mentioned p. 119
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Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. <em>Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.
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Reproduced: p. 27
citation
"Stories from Storage." <em>The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries </em>24, no. 5: 6-7.
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Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 6-7
citation
Vilbar, Sinéad. “Protecting the Word.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 20–21.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: pp. 20–21
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:59:55.298000
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400993
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork
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