Bejeweled Buddha Preaching, 1648
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Bejeweled Buddha Preaching

1648

Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on cloth
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Overall: 109.5 x 82.5 cm (43 1/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
Culture
Nepal
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

Nepalese devotional paintings on cloth are called "paubha" in the Newari language.