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The Bodhisattvas of the Ten Stages in Attaining the Most Perfect Knowledge

1454
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

This painting was used in the grandest of the Buddhist mortuary rites, the Water-Land ( shuilu ) ritual, which was conducted for the salvation of “all souls of the dead on land and sea.”

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