Sacred Art & Iconography
Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa (Victoria and Albert Museum, IM.121BB-1910)
Consecration drawing, ink and watercolour on paper, Tibet, ca. 13th century, Victoria and Albert Museum IM.121BB-1910
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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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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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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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.
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