This early tenth-century painting shows a woman being led by the bodhisattava Avalokiteśvara to the Buddhist paradise of Amitābha after her death. This was part of the beliefs of the Pure Land school of Buddhas whereby those who simply chanted the name of the Amitābha Buddha would cause them to be led to the Buddha's paradise on their death: a more direct route than three years of judgement.
Ink and colours on silk
The British Museum,
1919,0101,0.46 (Ch.lvii.003)