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Visual depiction of Vimalakirti

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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom

Vimalakirti

Buddhist lay master of wisdom


seated in his tiny room containing an impossible multitude of bodhisattvas, his thunderous silence answering Manjushri's question

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
wisdom

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.