A Vital Matters Artwork: Guatama's Pilgrimage to Ashtapada

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Guatama's Pilgrimage to Ashtapada

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MUSEUM LABEL

Unidentified artist(s)

Guatama’s Pilgrimage to Ashtapada; 1960 - 1961

Maharashtra, India

Velvet, silk cloth, gold and silver-gilt thread, plated metal sequins, cotton thread, wire, glass

H: 31.5 in, W: 54 in

The Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection

Unidentified artist(s)

Guatama’s Pilgrimage to Ashtapada; 1960 - 1961

Maharashtra, India

Velvet, silk cloth, gold and silver-gilt thread, plated metal sequins, cotton thread, wire, glass

H: 31.5 in, W: 54 in

The Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection

Unidentified artist(s)

Guatama’s Pilgrimage to Ashtapada; 1960 - 1961

Maharashtra, India

Velvet, silk cloth, gold and silver-gilt thread, plated metal sequins, cotton thread, wire, glass

H: 31.5 in, W: 54 in

The Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection

DESCRIPTION

Created to mark the completion of a fast, this choḍ pața illustrates the pilgrimage site (tirtha) Ashtāpada, a sacred mountain on which the first Jain Tirthankara, Rishabhdeva, attained nirvana. A tirtha (lit. "crossing") overlaps a space of worldly engagement with a transcendent one of liberation (moksha). Rishabhadeva's son, Bharata, built the first temples in our time atop the mountain, prophetically consecrating images of the twenty-four Jinas of our age. Perceiving a degeneration of morality over time, he hewed eight massive "steps" into the mountain, making it impassable to all but the most accomplished ascetics. In some Jain sources, Mt. Kailasa is considered the site of Ashtāpada but its exact location remains unknown.

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Lynna

Dhanani

Assistant Professor

Religious Studies, University of California, Davis

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Fowler Museum at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Fowler Exhibition

https://fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/visualizing-devotion/Virtual

Exhibition

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=BgmbTjyW2tAVital

Applied Jain Ethics public program

https://vimeo.com/703595252?share=copySteven

Vose introduction to the piece

https://vimeo.com/833182903/7577ff7cd2?share=copyLunch

Jain Shrine Hangings

https://vimeo.com/515921104?share=copyAnnotated

3D model

https://skfb.ly/oGzNZ

Jain Art in Zurich and Los Angeles

https://vimeo.com/805266115?share=copyVital

Jain Art and Ecology

https://vimeo.com/808012256?share=copy