{"id":927,"date":"2014-09-24T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=927"},"modified":"2015-04-08T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:32:49","slug":"image-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/24\/image-13\/","title":{"rendered":"13. Descent of Eleven-headed Kannon (Avalokiteshvara)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Kamakura period, 14th century; hanging scroll, ink, color, gold, and cut gold on silk; image: 33 15\/16 x 15 1\/4 in., mount: 64 1\/4 x 19 1\/2 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Charles Wrightsman Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Dodge, Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, and funds from various donors, 1972, 1972.181, photo: www.metmuseum.org.<\/p>\n<p>In Pure Land Buddhism, Kannon is Amida\u2019s most important attendant.\u00a0 He leads the Welcoming Descent, known as Raigo in Japanese. Kannon offers dying devotees a lotus throne, which signals their transfer from the mundane world to Amida\u2019s pure realm of Sukhavati. This painting shows the eleven-headed form of Kannon, called Juichimen in Japanese, an esoteric manifestation sometimes seen in Pure Land imagery. Floating down from Sukhavati on a pedestal of clouds, Kannon emanates golden light while holding a vase with a lotus. The bodhisattva\u2019s right hand makes the compassionate varada mudra.\u00a0 Gorgeous jewels and sumptuous fabrics adorn the androgynous deity, a radiant vision that reflects the splendor of Amida\u2019s Pure Land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Kamakura period, 14th century; hanging scroll, ink, color, gold, and cut gold on silk; image: 33 15\/16 x 15 1\/4 in., mount: 64 1\/4 x 19 1\/2 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Charles Wrightsman Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Dodge, Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, and funds from various donors, 1972, 1972.181, photo: www.metmuseum.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[69196],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-image_13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}