Cincinnati Art Museum curators were surprised to find a hidden image of Buddha in a mirror stored away in the archives.
Curators at the Cincinnati Art Museum made a surprising discovery when they shined a flashlight onto a mirror in their collection, revealing a hidden image.
Sung noticed that the mirror, which measures less than 9 inches in diameter and is affixed with a strand of bright-red rope, resembled mirrors made during Japan's Edo period . Although the mirror was smaller than ones Sung had seen on display at other museums, she noticed something"very similar" about the piece, which dates to the 15th or 16th centuries, she told CNN.
They saw something, but the light was too faint to create a strong image on the storage room's wall, so they found a brighter light, which revealed an image of a seated Buddha, with beams of light encircling him. Inscribed on the back of the mirror in bronze was the word Amitabha , also known as the"Buddha of Eternal Life" and one of the five cosmic Buddhas of Esoteric Buddhism.
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