Collection record · Belief & ritual
Temptation of Buddha by the Evil Forces of Mara
The collection record classifies this work as ivory. It is dated 700s. Recorded culture or place: Northern India, Kashmir, 8th century.
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- Museum title
- Temptation of Buddha by the Evil Forces of Mara
- Date
- 700s
- Culture / origin
- Northern India, Kashmir, 8th century
- Materials and technique
- ivory with gold and polychrome
- Dimensions
- Overall: 13 x 8.9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1971.18
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Intimate shrines for personal meditation practices contained scenes from the life of the Buddha. In an episode just prior to his achievement of enlightenment, the Buddha sat in meditation and faced personifications of the final obstacles. In this exquisite rendering derived from the Greco-Roman realism of Gandharan art, demons attack him in an attempt to scare him off the path. Seductive women do their best to distract him. He remains placid and firm in his conviction that these beings have no inherent reality, and he renders them powerless.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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