ID: 700009002 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009002	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Mandala of Avalokiteśvara of the Unfailing Lasso (Amoghpāśa) (painting (visual work); N/A; ca. 10th century; Musée Guimet (Paris, Île-de-France, France); )

Note: From Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. An important source for the history of Sino-Tibetan artistic interaction, this meticulously detailed painting with a well-preserved mount integrates an Indic mandala structure and figural style into the compound compositional format of tenth-century Dunhuang votive painting. The mandala (lit., “circle”) is a multifunctional pictorial and ritual form that assembles and organizes deities and attributes.

Titles:

Mandala of Avalokiteśvara of the Unfailing Lasso (Amoghpāśa) (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

不空羂索觀音曼陀羅圖 (C,U,Chinese,U,U)

Mandala of Guanyin (C,U,undetermined,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>)

banner (declaratory artifact) [300195679]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by function>, <declaratory and advertising artifacts>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 10th century

Creator Display:

N/A [preferred]

unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

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

Repository Numbers: EO 3579

Current: Musée Guimet (Paris, Île-de-France, France) [500275906] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Display Materials: Ink and pigments on silk

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

	pigments [300013109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, colorant (material))

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

Dimensions: 115 × 65 cm (45 1⁄4 × 25 9⁄16 in.)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

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

	Amoghapāśa [901001457]
	.....((Buddhist characters, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	mandala [300249866]
	.....(Physical Attributes Facet, Design Elements (hierarchy name), design elements (attributes), motifs, geometric motifs) (AAT)

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:
Mandala of Avalokiteśvara of the Unfailing Lasso (Amoghpāśa)	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 24
不空羂索觀音曼陀羅圖	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)
Mandala of Guanyin	........ [VP]
	........ ARTstor online

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

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 24