Archival Note Card - Buddha Room | Station 12

A reclining figure stretches across a crowded, sunlit scene beneath a floating cloud bank.

This archival note card from the Buddha Room series showing the stage of entering nirvana. It is archival paper. Buddhist art commonly organizes the Buddha's biography into a numbered series of scenes, so that each stage can be read as a step on a path. A tiny reclining figure rests on an orange platform among a dense crowd in a landscape of green and blue. Clouds with small beings float above under a deep blue sky. A thin gold border frames the image. It is 5 inches long and 7 high.

A crowded scene with an oddly peaceful center.