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The Death of Buddha
Also titled Het verscheiden van Boeddha
1400 - 1600
- Medium
- gold (metal), ink, dye, silk
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- diameter 61 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Yokoyama, Kyoto, 1930)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
When the historical Buddha passed away, only his body died. He himself entered a state of complete enlightenment (nirvana). This is celebrated in Japan on the fifteenth day of the second month. On that day, the service focuses on a painting like this, in which the Buddha’s body is surrounded by numerous creatures mourning their teacher’s departure.
