Hoss? Mandala 16th century Japan This painting is a manifestation of the transmission of Hoss?-school teachings from India and China to Japan. One of the eight earliest Buddhist schools, Hoss? (Faxiang in Chinese; Dharmalakshana in Sanskrit) was founded by the great monk Genj? (Xuanzang in Chinese; 596–664) and his eminent disciple Kiki, also known as Jion Daishi (Guiji in Chinese; 632–682).As the legendary founder of the Hoss? sect, Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva) is enshrined as the central deity, facing forward. Depicted against a lozenge-grid background are twenty-three patriarchs of
Hoss? Mandala 16th century Japan This painting is a manifestation of the transmission of Hoss?-school teachings from India and China to Japan. One of the eight earliest Buddhist schools, Hoss? (Faxiang in Chinese; Dharmalakshana in Sanskrit) was founded by the great monk Genj? (Xuanzang in Chinese; 596–664) and his eminent disciple Kiki, also known as Jion Daishi (Guiji in Chinese; 632–682).As the legendary founder of the Hoss? sect, Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva) is enshrined as the central deity, facing forward. Depicted against a lozenge-grid background are twenty-three patriarchs of the Hoss? school in three-quarter view, arranged symmetrically in two groups, flanking the central image. Each of them can be identified with a name written in a cartouche next to the image. Chinese and Japanese priests appear below the Indian patriarchs. All of the figures are portrayed wearing detailed and colorful garments in a schematic manner that suggests a date of the second half of the sixteenth century for this Hoss? Mandala. Japan. 16th century. Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold leaf on silk. Muromachi period (1392–1573). Paintings
Size: 927px × 1952px
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