Iconographic Drawings of the Five Kings of Wisdom (My??-bu shoson) 12th century Japan The Five Great Kings of Wisdom (Godai My??) are ferocious-looking deities who ward off evil in order to protect the Buddha’s law. The opening section of this scroll shows various depictions of Fud? My??, the Immovable King of Wisdom. The surrounding mandorla of flames represents the extinguishing of human passions. Accompanying the illustrations are schematic drawings of the deity’s attributes: a vajra “thunderbolt” sword (a symbol for cutting through ignorance), an eight-spoked dharmachakra disk, and a two-p
Iconographic Drawings of the Five Kings of Wisdom (My??-bu shoson) 12th century Japan The Five Great Kings of Wisdom (Godai My??) are ferocious-looking deities who ward off evil in order to protect the Buddha’s law. The opening section of this scroll shows various depictions of Fud? My??, the Immovable King of Wisdom. The surrounding mandorla of flames represents the extinguishing of human passions. Accompanying the illustrations are schematic drawings of the deity’s attributes: a vajra “thunderbolt” sword (a symbol for cutting through ignorance), an eight-spoked dharmachakra disk, and a two-pronged vajra with rope. The Zuz? sh? (or Jikkansh?) is an encyclopedia of Esoteric Buddhist iconography in ten scrolls, with detailed descriptions of the attributes of the various My??. This scroll is stylistically close to the oldest surviving version of the Zuz? sh?, housed at Daigoji Temple in Kyoto from approximately Iconographic Drawings of the Five Kings of Wisdom (My??-bu shoson). Japan. 12th century. Handscroll; ink and color on paper. Heian period (794–1185). Paintings
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