Meta-Discourse on the Teachings from the Treasury (Abidharmakosha-Bhashya)

Description

This religious text relates some of the teachings of the great fourth-century Indian Buddhist scholar Vasubhandhu. The text analyzes human consciousness in its relationship to the environment and transformations that occur during meditation. This scroll is the 17th part of a 30-part translation of the text by Xuanzang, an eminent seventh-century Chinese monk.

Provenance

Kuroda Takuma 黒田太久馬 [1867–?], Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?–1916); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1916–)

Meta-Discourse on the Teachings from the Treasury (Abidharmakosha-Bhashya)

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1100s

Accession Number

1916.1060

Medium

handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper

Dimensions

Overall: 26.4 x 670.6 cm (10 3/8 x 264 in.)

Classification

Manuscript

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Worcester R. Warner Collection