Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin
Water-moon Guanyin

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Water-moon Guanyin,

undated

Anonymous
Korean
Goryeo dynasty, 918–1392
y1928-25

Information

Title
Water-moon Guanyin
Dates

undated

Maker
Anonymous
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions
Painting: 105.9 x 55.8 cm. (41 11/16 x 21 15/16 in.) Mount: 213 x 73 cm. (83 7/8 x 28 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase (?), Morse Fund
Object Number
y1928-25
Place Made

Asia, Korea

Description
The Water-moon Guanyin Bodhisattva (水月觀音菩薩) was worshipped for its ability to prevent calamity and disease and protect travelers. This painting shows the bodhisattva in three-quarter view, seated on a rocky outcropping above the waves. At lower left stands the boy acolyte Sudhana (C: Shancai Tongzi善財童子), whose encounter with the deity as recounted in the Avatamsaka (Flower Adornment) Sutra may be the textual source for this iconographic type, which had a Chinese prototype but was also popular in Korea during the Goryeo period.
Culture
Korean
Period
Koryo
Type
hanging scrolls, paintings, scroll paintings
Materials
gold, ink, silk (textile)
Subject
caves, religious art, women, seas

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