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| Keywords: Chinese - Cosmic Mount Meru - Walters 35302.jpg The setting with beasts and floating skulls in a desolate landscape focuses the mind of the meditator or the initiate in a ceremony upon mortality and hence upon the eternal Within the circle is a view of our world seen from above a sacred imaginary conception but based upon reality The four continents are represented by groups of three buildings India the southern continent appears on the left Between the continents and Mt Meru are seven concentric oceans and mountain ranges Mt Meru rises in the center One heaven stands on its slopes a second lies at its summit and four float above it century 18 appliqué and embroidery with silk cm 115 6 70 5 ; size cm 120 97 74 93 3 81 accession number 35 302 19799 Jon Rüs Atlanta Georgia date and mode of acquisition unknown John and Berthe Ford Baltimore 1978 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2008 Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art Asia Society New York 2010 place of origin east Tibet Walters Art Museum license 2D Chinese paintings in the Walters Art Museum Tibetan art in the Walters Art Museum Mount Meru mythology Oxen Black horses in art Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review | ||||
