1919,0101,0.6

Description

Scope and content : Ch. liii. 001. Large silk painting representing prob. Amitābha and attendants, with donors. Complete except for corners and border, and in good condition. Simple in design, containing only thirteen figs. besides donors: Amitābha, Avalokiteśvara, Māhāsthāma, six shaven disciples, two smaller Bodhisattvas, and two nymphs. Cf. *Ch.0051, etc. Amitābha sits with legs interlocked, R. hand in vitarkamudrā, L. below it at breast, hanging from wrist, with second and third fingers bent up. His mantle, vivid crimson lined with pale green and blue, is wrapped round both shoulders and arms; his flesh yellow shaded with red, which has changed to a curious iridescent mauve giving effect of copper; his hair bright cobalt-blue; small moustache and imperial green.