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Image: Bodhisattva Samantabhadra Riding an Elephant (detail), Heian period, 12th century, National Treasure, collection of the Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo. Exhibition flyer courtesy of the museum.
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Okura Museum of Art Shows Kamakura-Period ‘Nirvana of the Buddha’ in Buddhist Art Exhibition Through 27 September Image: Bodhisattva Samantabhadra Riding an Elephant (detail), Heian period, 12th century, National Treasure, collection of the Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo. Exhibition flyer courtesy of the museum.
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Okura Museum of Art Shows Kamakura-Period ‘Nirvana of the Buddha’ in Buddhist Art Exhibition Through 27 September

The Okura Museum of Art in Tokyo is showing a 14th-century painting of the Buddha’s parinirvana in ‘Beauty of prayer and relief: Meeting with the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra Riding an Elephant (National treasure)’, an exhibition of Buddhist art drawn from the museum’s own holdings that runs from 28 July to 27 September 2026.

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