Daish?jin Bosatsu, from “Album of Buddhist Deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas” 12th century Attributed to Takuma Tamet? This drawing belongs to a compendium of Buddhist deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas that was discovered in Japan in the late 1920s, disassembled, and dispersed. Together, the two mandalas are foundational to Esoteric Buddhist ritual. This page shows the bodhisattva Daish?jin, a deity of unswerving faith and one of the Sixteen Honored Ones of the Auspicious Age, a group of guardians in the Diamond World Daish?jin Bosatsu, from
Daish?jin Bosatsu, from “Album of Buddhist Deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas” 12th century Attributed to Takuma Tamet? This drawing belongs to a compendium of Buddhist deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas that was discovered in Japan in the late 1920s, disassembled, and dispersed. Together, the two mandalas are foundational to Esoteric Buddhist ritual. This page shows the bodhisattva Daish?jin, a deity of unswerving faith and one of the Sixteen Honored Ones of the Auspicious Age, a group of guardians in the Diamond World Daish?jin Bosatsu, from “Album of Buddhist Deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas”. Attributed to Takuma Tamet? (Japanese, active ca. 1132–74). Japan. 12th century. Fragment of an album, mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper. Heian period (794–1185). Paintings
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