Origin of Sakyamuni Buddha (II) Thangka

[Sakyamuni Buddha Origins (II) Thangka]

Sakyamuni Buddha Origins Thangka (II), 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 148 cm high, 96 cm wide, 87 cm vertical and 57 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
In this picture, Sakyamuni Buddha is wearing a cassock with the same shoulder as the field, his hands are connected with the statement seal, and he sits on the Leo with his hands folded, with green head light and blue, red and yellow colored body light painted behind him. The first part of the merit story is the story of the king of Persia, and the second part is the story of the king of auspicious army. The Tibetan names of the stories are written on the vermilion list with gold juice. The order of each story is arranged in a clockwise direction. Between each story and between different scenes and details of the same story, mountains, trees, waterfalls, springs, clouds, buildings and other scenery are taken as the boundary, and the plot of each story is recorded in detail on the picture. Although the layout of the picture is staggered, the whole picture is in order
There is a white silk label on the back of the Thangka, which is inscribed in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan four-body characters in ink, and the Chinese text is: “On the fifth day of November of the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong’s reign, the emperor ordered Galdanxi to recognize the origin of Sakyamuni Buddha, the portrait of offering benefits…”. In addition, a yellow inscription is attached to write the next orientation of the worship: “First on the right, the origin of the benefit portrait of Sakyamuni Buddha…”
“The origin and development of Sakyamuni Buddha” is the name of the Qing Dynasty palace. In the picture, Sakyamuni Buddha is in the middle. Zhou Za’s painting is based on the Buddha’s life or the Buddha’s biography, which is often called “the Buddha’s hundred accomplishments”. Many stories are like big trees with luxuriant branches and leaves, so Tibetan Buddhists call this “Ruyi Treasure Tree”. This set of Thangka has a total of 31 axes and 108 pieces of stories of achievements. Since the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong’s reign (1789), it has been stored in the Buddha Day Tower of the Buddha Hall in the palace, and is still intact as new.