Shakyamuni Triad: Buddha Attended by Manjushri and Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva with Lion)
1304
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1304
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Shakyamuni Triad: Buddha Attended by Manjushri and Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva with Lion) is a 1304 unspecified by Unknown, a ming_painting work, depicting fujian province, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a golden Buddha sitting on a lotus, flanked by two holy figures—one on a lion, one on an elephant. Below them, smaller people kneel in prayer, including a boy with twisted topknots and a woman in a long robe. This painting comes from a time when most Buddhist art in China was destroyed. It survived in Fujian, a coastal province where local artists kept the tradition alive. The clouds around the figures aren’t just decoration—they swirl like smoke, separating the human world from the divine. To see more art from this place and time, look up *yuan dynasty (1271-1368)*.
