# Nagarjuna (c. 150–250 CE) with a Buddhist Master, in The Himalayas

An unrecorded Nepal artist painted this in about 1300s. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Nagarjuna, the Buddhist philosopher from southern India, sits on his eponymous red and black serpents, or naga . His interlocutor may be his disciple Aryadeva. A volume of the Perfection of Wisdom , honored with flowers, is on a golden bookstand between their heads.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1300s
- Medium: gum tempera on sized cotton
- Dimensions: Overall: 57.8 x 45.1 cm (22 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1985.186
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

Unrecorded Himalayan maker

## Walk on

- [More by unrecorded makers of the Himalayas](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/unrecorded-himalayas?hang=750) (7 works)
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