Portrait of Vimalakirti, 15th century, (1886). Artist: Wilhelm Greve.

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Portrait of Vimalakirti, 15th century, (1886). Sesshiu School. From a painting on silk attributed to Shiugrtsu. Vimalakirti is believed to have been the first enlightened lay Buddhist. He is thought to have lived around the time of Gautama Buddha (6th-5th centuury BC). He is the subject of the Vimalakirti sutra. A print from The Pictorial Arts of Japan, by William Anderson, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1886.

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