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Luohans Moving Through Forests and Sea

Formerly attributed to Fanlong 梵隆 (active mid-12th century)

16th-17th century

Medium: Ink on paper
Classification: Paintings
Dimensions: H x W (image): 38.1 x 833.3 cm (15 x 328 1/16 in)
Culture: Buddhists
Museum: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Rights: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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

In this painting two luohan crossing the sea, one riding a dragon and another a turtle, are greeted by an emperor-like figure holding a scholar's tablet, bowing in respect. A servant carries a tripod vessel on his head as a gift. The scroll ends with three women at the door of an underwater palace.