ID: 700008992 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008992	Record Type: Movable Work
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Guiding (or Yinlu) Bodhisattva (painting (visual work); unknown Tang dynasty; ca. 851/900; British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United King...; 1919,0101,0.47 (Ch.lvii.002))

Note: From Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Hanging scroll of the transitional state between death and rebirth, in which a bodhisattva (Avalokiteśvara or Kṣitigarbha) guides a reverent laywoman on a raft of wispy red clouds toward a heavenly palace manifesting in the sky above, the Pure Land, indicated by the Chinese buildings at the top left. He holds a golden censer in his right hand, a white banner in his left. It reflects the widespread Mahayana belief that one could attain rebirth in a Pure Land (Chinese jingtu) by means of a variety of complex practices, most notably, contemplating the qualities and invoking the name of the buddha Amitābha.

Titles:

Guiding (or Yinlu) Bodhisattva (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

Painting / 繪畫 (C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

引路菩薩 (C,U,Chinese,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 851/900

Creator Display:

unknown Tang dynasty [preferred]

artists unknown Tang (Tang cultural designation) [500204343]

Locations:

Current: British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500125180] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1919,0101,0.47 (Ch.lvii.002)

Address Note: Condition-sensitive object. Handling restricted.

Other: Discovery: Qianfodong [7029798] Gansu province (province), China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Ink and colours on silk

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	color (pigment) [300264870]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)

	silk (silkworm material) [300014072]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, fibroinous material)

Dimensions: 80.5 x 53.8 centimetres; Painting on mount: 174 x 68 centimetres; with hanging attachment: 180 x 73.2 x 3.2 centimetres

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Tang (Chinese culture, style, period) [300018420] (preferred,dynasty)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Asian, East Asian, Chinese (culture or style), Chinese dynastic styles and periods)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	guiding bodhisattva [300404799]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, bodhisattvas) (AAT)

	rebirth [300073437]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <religions and religious concepts>, religious concepts, doctrinal concepts) (AAT)

	woman (female human) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	Avalokiteshvara [901000085]
	.....((Buddhist characters, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Kṣitigarbha [901001850]
	.....((Buddhist characters, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	pure lands [300404618]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <religions and religious concepts>, religious concepts, doctrinal concepts, Buddhist doctrinal concepts) (AAT)

Provenance: Collected by: Sir Marc Aurel Stein; Acquisition date 1919

Inscriptions: Inscription in cartouche, Chinese: Inscription Transliteration [Yinlu pu]; Inscription Translation: Bodhi(sattva) Guide of Souls. Exhibited: 5 October – 29 December 2013, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Making of Chinese Masterpieces: Chinese Painting from the 8th to 19th Centuries 2016 7 May-4 Sep, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road

Related Works:

	former location was .... Mogao Cave 17 [700008877]
	..........rock-cut temple; N/A; begun 9th century

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Works at Mogao

Sources and Contributors:
Guiding (or Yinlu) Bodhisattva	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 15
Painting / 繪畫	........ [VP]
	........ British Museum [online] (1999-)
引路菩薩	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 15

....................... Getty Research Institute, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-guiding-bodhisattva/

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 15
	..... British Museum [online] (1999-)