Dimensions: Height: 86 1/2" Width: 59 3/4"

18th C. Large Chinese Qing Dynasty Qianlong Reign Period silk Kesi Buddhist Thangka of Shakyamuni Buddha Live Story. Vertical rectangular pan. Masterly seemed with metallic silk thread portraying the live story of Shakyamuni Buddha, the Enlightened One, Sage of the Shakya Clan.Depicting Shakyamuni dressed in red monastic robes, without ornaments known as nirmanakaya appearance. Serene face and pendulous earlobes beneath ushnisha. Right chest bared, with hand raised at heart level performing Abhaya Mudra, and left hand resting upward on the lap performing Dhyana Mudra. Seated in vajra position with right over left leg, both faced upward; upon a moon shaped lotus blooms throne, with all manifestation deities surrounding the chakra. Enclosed within orange-red floral square band, before the royal-yellow borders terminating the vertical wide red ribbon beneath. All set against interlocking pattern blue silk ground.Mark on upper right, a vertical six golden thread script characters within red rectangular border, Made in The Years of Qianlong Reign Period of Great Qing Dynasty.