Buddha, resisting the demons of Mara, who are attempting to prevent him from attaining enlightenment, as angels watch from above. Lithograph.

Selected images from this work

[Sri Lanka], [between 1800 and 1899?]

1 print : lithograph, with gold ink ; image 43.3 x 63.3 cm

Mara's battle Lettering in Sinhalese and English below the image and in English on verso saying that these pictures were bought from Ceylon

Wellcome Collection 580096i

Exhibited in “Tranquillity” at Wellcome Collection, 15 July 2021 - 9 January 2022

Exhibited in ‘Hello Happiness!’ at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, 27 May – 19 November 2023

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