Painted Banner (Thangka) with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Asia

14th century

Central Tibet

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Painted Banner (Thangka) with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru)
Place: Tibet (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1201–1400
Medium: Pigment and gold on cotton
Dimensions: 104 × 82.7 cm (41 × 32 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund
Reference Number: 1996.29
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Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Lobsang Lhalungpa, Thubten J. Norbu, Robert Sachs, Robert A.F. Thurman, and Tashi Woser, Tibet: Tradition and Change, (The Albuquerque Museum, 1997), pp. 86-7, (ill.) pl. 43.
Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinuber, and Gautama V. Vajracharya, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), pp. 190-192: pl. 125.
Tanya Treptow, “Bhaishajyaguru Mandala” in The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade and Transformation, Museum Studies 33, 1, p. 78, (ill.) p. 79.
James Cuno, Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2011), p. 66, (ill.) pl. 3.
Dawn Hall, Tibet: Tradition and Change (The Albuquerque Museum, 1997), pp. 86-87, pl. 43.

Albuquerque, The Albuquerque Museum, Tibet: Tradition and Change, October 18, 1997-May 24, 1998.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, April 5, 2003- August 17, 2003.
Washington, DC, The Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, October 18, 2003- January 11, 2004.

Sold to the Art Institute by Namka Dorjee, London, United Kingdom, January 24, 1996.

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