Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ksitigarbha

Ksitigarbha

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Original – A 14th-century hanging scroll from Goryeo dynasty Korea, depicting Ksitigarbha. In art, this Bodhisattva is often shown with a halo, a staff for opening the gates of hell, and a jewel to bring light to darkness. Ksitigarbha vowed to not to achieve Buddhahood until all hells are emptied.

Reason

Since we've had a string of Korean nominations recently, I figured I might as well take part. This is a high quality scan of a 14th-century Korean scroll, showing several of the key characteristics of the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha

Articles in which this image appears

Ksitigarbha, Cintamani

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/East Asian art

Creator

Unknown

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support Quite interesting (and still dreaming of opportunity to visit Seoul...) Brandmeister^talk 13:11, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Good quality, interesting work. Yann (talk) 20:28, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
• Comment - An exceptional piece that's been very well preserved - Blorgy555 — Preceding undated comment added 04:26, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support – interesting - a bit different from what I usually go for but the quality and the EV are all there. SagaciousPhil - Chat 11:13, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support - per above. Bammesk (talk) 23:42, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Goryeo-Kshitigarbha (Chijang)-late.14c.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:03, 30 May 2015 (UTC)