Mahasiddha Ghantapa and the Great Flood
The legendary Buddhist sage (mahasiddha) Ghantapa created a flood in order to teach a lesson to a king. But the flood threatened the lives of innocent bystanders, and so Ghantapa told them to pray to Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. Avalokiteshvara dispatched a...
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Sonan Tashi [Tibetan dealer], Hong Kong [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, August 1, 1995, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
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Buddhist
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tempera on cloth
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