A consecration drawing, ink and watercolour on paper, Tibet, ca. 13th century, depicting Naropa, the eleventh-century Indian mahasiddha whose teachings his student Marpa carried back to Tibet to found the Kagyu lineage. Part of a set of consecration drawings discovered inside a figure of Buddha Sakyamuni, acquired from the Baillie Gallery in 1910. Held today by the Victoria and Albert Museum under accession IM.121BB-1910.
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Subject Matter
Devotional FunctionConsecration drawings of this kind were rolled and inserted inside a completed Tibetan Buddhist sculpture, in this instance a figure of Buddha Sakyamuni, as an internal component of the finished image rather than an object meant to be seen; scholarly and public knowledge of them is possible only because they were later removed from the statues that had concealed them. 1 Physical Form
MediumConsecration drawing, ink and watercolour on paper, Tibet, ca. 13th century, Victoria and Albert Museum IM.121BB-1910 1 Classification
Object TypeDrawing (Pencil, Chalk, Ink or Wash) 1 Medium (class) Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Source Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Depicts
The V&A's own physicalDescription and subjectDepicted fields name Naropa directly, a ca. 13th century Tibetan consecration drawing from a set discovered inside a figure of Buddha Sakyamuni.
Source Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Originated In
Tibet, Regions Source Victoria and Albert Museum Collections API: V&A object record O391704
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1. Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Victoria and Albert Museumcatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A consecration drawing, ink and watercolour on paper, Tibet, ca.
Victoria and Albert Museum Collections API: V&A object record O391704
Victoria and Albert Museum Collections APIOriginated In: Tibet, placesOfOriginQuote, Originated In: Tibet, placesOfOrigin
"text": "Tibet"
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