清 水陸畫兩幅

ink and color on silk, each portraying an assemblage of deities amid clouds, the first portraying deities of a higher realm including heavenly emperors, officials and ministers; the second depicting deities from a lower realm, including sages, worthies, monks, spirits and deities from the natural world, framed

Acquired in the 1960s.

These paintings form part of a set used in the Buddhist Water Land Deliverance Ritual, in which all deities from higher realms are called upon to deliver beings from lower realms of existence from their suffering.