ID: 700009012 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009012	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Sutra on Requiting Kindness (Baoen jing) (painting (visual work); unknown Tang; ca. 800/850; British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United King...)

Note: From Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. By the Tang dynasty, buddha assemblies in Dunhuang painting were often set in elaborate palaces in sweeping landscapes, evoking the emanated paradises into which Mahayanists aspired to be reborn. The scene unfolding around the central preaching Buddha, Śākyamuni, is one of multisensory wonder and beauty. Emanated buddhas float on clouds above the palace; human-headed birds perch on landforms surfacing from pure, lotus-filled water below.

Titles:

Sutra on Requiting Kindness (Baoen jing) (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Requiting Kindness Sutra Paradise (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Painting / 繪畫 (C,U,Chinese,U,U,English,U,U)

大方便佛報恩經變 (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. 800/850

Creator Display:

unknown Tang [preferred]

artists unknown Tang (Tang cultural designation) [500204343]

Locations:

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

Repository Numbers: 1919,0101,0.1 (Ch.xxxviii.004)

Current: British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500125180] 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: 168 × 121.6 cm (66 1⁄8 × 47 7⁄8 in.); Textile in frame: 185.5 x 139.5 x 3.3 cm

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:

	Buddha [901000851]
	.....((Buddhist characters, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Śakyamuni Buddha (Asian philosopher, founder of Buddhism, ca. 560-ca. 480 BCE) [500372531]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	vitarka mudra [300404641]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), multidisciplinary concepts, body position, gesture, mudra) (AAT)

	Requiting Kindness Sutra [901001388]
	.....((Named sutras, Literary works: Philosophy, Religion, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	transformation tableau (Buddhist work) [300404806]
	..... (AAT)

	Sujáti, Prince [901001390]
	.....((Buddhist characters, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	paradise (doctrinal concept) [300055986]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <religions and religious concepts>, religious concepts, doctrinal concepts) (AAT)

Provenance: Collected by: Sir Marc Aurel Stein biography; Acquisition date 1919 Exhibited: 2007 8 Feb-5 Aug, BM Gallery 91, 'Gods, Guardians and Immortals: Chinese Religious Paintings' 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:
Sutra on Requiting Kindness (Baoen jing)	........ [VP]
	........ British Museum [online] (1999-)
Requiting Kindness Sutra Paradise	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 33
Painting / 繪畫	........ [VP]
	........ British Museum [online] (1999-)
大方便佛報恩經變	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)

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

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 33

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... British Museum [online] (1999-)
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 33