Archival Note Card - Buddha Room | Station 7

A seated figure under a cloud canopy teaches in a meadow beside a river.

This archival note card from the Buddha Room series showing the stage of ascetic life. 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. Beneath a ring of floating pink cloud and small beings, a seated figure addresses rows of orange-robed listeners on green grass. A winding blue river and rocky outcrops lie at the lower left. It is 5 inches long and 7 high.

A quiet lecture with an enormous sky for a roof.