Milarepa on Mount Kailash
1500
gold
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1500
gold
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Milarepa on Mount Kailash is a 1500 gold by Unknown, a Renaissance work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a tall cloth painting of a white-robed man sitting in a cave on a snowy mountain. Below him, a bright blue-green lake winds like a ribbon. Smaller figures—his students and his teacher—hover around him in gold circles. This is a *thangka*, a portable scroll used by Tibetan Buddhists for meditation and teaching. The man is Milarepa, a poet and saint who lived in the 1100s. The mountain, Kailash, is sacred to many faiths, but here it’s shown as a place of quiet wisdom, not just geography. To see how other artists painted sacred landscapes, visit the Art Institute of Chicago.
