{"id":1997,"date":"2017-07-12T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T02:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:56:31","slug":"medicine-buddha-bhaishajyaguru-meaningful-materials-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/medicine-buddha-bhaishajyaguru-meaningful-materials-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Buddha Bhaishajyaguru &#8211; Meaningful Materials (82)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Medicine Buddha Bhaishajyaguru \u2013 Meaningful Materials (82)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8OKw-sK39KE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1998\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/medicine-buddha-bhaishajyaguru-meaningful-materials-82\/buddha-bhaishajyaguru-aic-1996-29-more-original-colors\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1998 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Buddha-Bhaishajyaguru-AIC-1996.29-more-original-colors-810x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tibetan Painted Banner of the Medicine Buddha\" width=\"474\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Buddha-Bhaishajyaguru-AIC-1996.29-more-original-colors-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Buddha-Bhaishajyaguru-AIC-1996.29-more-original-colors-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Buddha-Bhaishajyaguru-AIC-1996.29-more-original-colors-768x971.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tibetan Painted Banner (Thangka) with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru), 14th century, Art Institute of Chicago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How do artists&#8217; choices of materials assign identity and meaning to works of art? How does meaning assign material? In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, I explore the meaningful material of the semi-precious blue stone lapis lazuli in a Tibetan painted banner (thangka) of the Buddha of medicine and healing, Bhaishajyaguru.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features Works of Art:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Painted Banner (Thangka) with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru)<\/em><br \/>\nCentral Tibet, 14th century<br \/>\nPigment and gold on cotton<br \/>\n104 x 82.7 cm (41 x 32 1\/2 in.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/artwork\/144397\">Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}