Artworks

Tejaprabha Buddha and the Pole Star

Artwork · Anonymous · 1850–1860 · kakemono

Buddhist, Daoist and shaman iconography mixed together: the Tejaprabha Buddha (Ch’isŏng kwangbul) and the north pole star (Pukkŭk sŏng), surrounded by the nine planets and twenty-eight constellations. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 142, 144, fig. 77. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.