{"id":653,"date":"2014-09-24T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=653"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:23:58","slug":"image-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/24\/image-4\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Avalokiteshvara, One of the Eight Great Bodhisattvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Tibet, 18th century; pigment on cloth with silk mount; 39 3\/8 x 20 3\/4 x 1\/2 in.; The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, C2008.9.<\/p>\n<p>Belonging to a set of paintings depicting the Eight Great <b>Bodhisattvas<\/b>, this work is rendered in a Chinese-inspired style called <b><i>gyalug<\/i><\/b> in Tibetan. The blue and green shaded outcropping derives from Chinese landscape painting and reveals the otherworldly nature of the realm. The Tibetan artist shows <b>Amitabha<\/b>, the spiritual father of <b>Avalokiteshvara<\/b>, sitting on the lotus that the <i>bodhisattva<\/i> holds, instead of the more customary presentation as an icon within Avalokiteshvara\u2019s crown. The ruby red color identifies this <b>Buddha<\/b> as Amitabha. Avalokiteshvara\u2019s halo is also tinted red, as the two figures look at each other in serene meditation and spiritual connection. LL<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Explore Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/explore\/#exp-avalo\" target=\"_blank\">Explore the Interactive\u00a0Avalokiteshvara<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Tibet, 18th century; pigment on cloth with silk mount; 39 3\/8 x 20 3\/4 x 1\/2 in.; The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, C2008.9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[69121],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-image_4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}