Amitabha (Q60763142)

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collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
depicts: Amitābha Buddha (Q236242)
instance of: sculpture (Q860861)

catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.1082

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: This delicately crafted statue of Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light, bears testimony to the flowering of Buddhist art under the Liao Empire established by the Khitans, a nomadic Mongolian people, after the Tang persecution of Buddhists in 845.

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