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Temptation of Buddha by the Evil Forces of Mara

700s

Northern India, Kashmir, 8th century

Ivory with gold and polychrome

Overall: 13 x 8.9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1971.18

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237 Himalayan

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.

Provenance

?–1971

(N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1971–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Tardy. Les ivoires; évolution décorative du Ier siècle à nos jours. Paris: Tardy, 1972. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 188, fig. 2

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1971." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972): 3-46. Mentioned: no. 139, p. 46; Reproduced: no. 139, p. 25 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 293 archive.org

Pal, Pratapaditya, and Robert L. Brown. Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian Art. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 44, p. 102

Chandra, Pramod. The Sculpture of India, 3000 B.C. to 1300 A.D.: [Exhibition]. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 81, p. 172

Czuma, Stanislaw. "A Unique Addition to the School of Kashmiri Ivories." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 8 (October 1988): 298–319. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 306, figs. 10 and 11; p. 308, fig. 13 www.jstor.org

Czuma, Stanislaw J. "Ivory Sculpture." In Art and Architecture of Ancient Kashmir. Pratapaditya Pal, ed. pp. 57–76. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1989.

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 2, 2014–August 13, 2015).

Himalayan Gallery (236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 24, 2015–present).

Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 12, 1986).

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