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Temptation of Buddha by the Evil Forces of Mara   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Temptation of Buddha by the Evil Forces of Mara
Description
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.
Date 700
Medium Ivory with gold and polychrome
Dimensions Overall: 13 x 8.9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Indian and South East Asian Art
Accession number
1971.18
Place of creation Northern India, Kashmir, 8th century
Credit line Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.18

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