Medicine Buddha Bhaishajyaguru - Meaningful Materials (82)

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How do artists' choices of materials assign identity and meaning to works of art? How does meaning assign material? In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, I explore the meaningful material of the semi-precious blue stone lapis lazuli in a Tibetan painted banner (thangka) of the Buddha of medicine and healing, Bhaishajyaguru.

Features Works of Art:

Painted Banner (Thangka) with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru)

Central Tibet, 14th century

Pigment and gold on cotton

104 x 82.7 cm (41 x 32 1/2 in.)


Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.29

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