Taima Mandala
Taima mandara當麻曼荼羅
Japan, Kyōto, Tōzenji temple 等善寺
1691 (Genroku era 元禄 , 4)
Paint on paper
Gift of Professor Inagaki Hisao 稲垣久雄 in 2007
Former collection of the Australian poet Harold F. Stewart (1916-1995)
Notice
Reproduction of a famous 8th century tapestry depicting the Pure Land of Amida Buddha, as described in the Contemplations Sūtra , and kept in the Taimadera temple (Nara department). There are several versions; this one was done by the Chinese monk Dudang Xingying 獨湛性螢 (Jap. Dokutan Shōkei, 1628-1706), 4th abbot of the Manpukuji in Uji, the mother temple of the Ōbaku school of Japanese Zen.
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