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The Buddha Amida arrives here to welcome a person to his Pure Land at the moment of death. A monk, a woman, and a child sit with their hands in prayer, and a beam of light emanating from Amida extends toward them. The inscription at the top indicates that the compassion of Amida Buddha always flows impartially to all those who recite his name, a quote from the <em>Contemplation Sutra</em>.
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142834
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Embroidered Welcoming Descent of Amida Triad
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142834
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Embroidered Welcoming Descent of Amida Triad
description
The Buddha Amida arrives here to welcome a person to his Pure Land at the moment of death. A monk, a woman, and a child sit with their hands in prayer, and a beam of light emanating from Amida extends toward them. The inscription at the top indicates that the compassion of Amida Buddha always flows impartially to all those who recite his name, a quote from the <em>Contemplation Sutra</em>.
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1400s
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en
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Q80043061
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Embroidery
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Embroidery: 109.1 x 37.2 cm (42 15/16 x 14 5/8 in.); Mounted: 173.1 x 49.4 cm (68 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.)
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Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
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1966.513
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Hanging scroll; silk and human hair embroidery
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Embroidered Welcoming Descent of Amida Triad (繡仏阿弥陀三尊来迎図), 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Hanging scroll; silk and human hair embroidery; embroidery: 109.1 x 37.2 cm (42 15/16 x 14 5/8 in.); mounted: 173.1 x 49.4 cm (68 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection, 1966.513
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繡仏阿弥陀三尊来迎図
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ASIAN - Hanging scroll
didYouKnow
The <em>Contemplation Sutra</em> is a sacred Buddhist text often used in Pure Land Buddhism.
citations
citation
“Year in Review.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 54, no. 10, 1967, pp. 302–346.
page_number
Reproduced: no. 175, p. 336; Mentioned: p. 347
citation
Grotenhuis, Elizabeth ten. “Visions of a Transcendent Realm: Pure Land Images in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 78, no. 7, 1991, pp. 274–300.
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Reproduced: p. 290, fig. 14
citation
Grotenhuis ten, Elizabeth. <em>Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography</em>. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.
page_number
Reproduced: fig. 85, p. 141
citation
Grotenhuis, Elizabeth ten. “Bodily Gift and Spiritual Pledge: Human hair in Japanese Buddhist Embroideries." <em>Orientations,</em> Fan/Feb 2004, pp. 31–35.
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Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 1; p. 32, fig. 1a
citation
Li, Yuhang. “Embroidering Guanyin: Constructions of the Divine through Hair.” <em>East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine</em>, no. 36 (2012): 131–166.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 157, fig. 2; Mentioned: p. 139
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Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection
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2026-05-29 07:20:48.595000
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142834
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Hanging scroll
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Hanging scroll; silk and human hair embroidery
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