Guanyin as the Nine-Lotus Bodhisattva, 九蓮観音菩薩像, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 1593, China, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 72 3/8 × 44 1/8 in. (183.8 × 112.1 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist Chinese, late 16th century, Many East Asian images of White-robed Guanyin (Japanese: Byakue Kannon) depict the bodhisattva in an idyllic setting meant to represent his abode in Potalaka (Japanese: Fudaraku). In this painting, made for a dowager empress in the Wanli era (1573–1615), Guanyin’s paradise is a Chinese palace garden
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Guanyin, Nine-Lotus Bodhisattva, 九蓮観音菩薩像, Ming dynasty, 1368–1644, 1593, China, Hanging scroll, ink, color, silk, Image, 72 3/8, 44 1/8, 183.8, 112.1 cm, Paintings, Unidentified Artist Chinese, late 16th century, East, Asian, images, White-robed Guanyin, Japanese, Byakue Kannon, depict, bodhisattva, idyllic setting, meant, represent, abode, Potalaka, Fudaraku, painting, dowager empress, Wanli era, 1573–1615, Guanyin, paradise, Chinese palace, garden
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