Home›Sources›The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Buddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani," accession 1989.294SourcesThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Buddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani," accession 1989.294sourceCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Buddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani," accession 1989.294." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/buddha-preaching-first-sermon-maitreya-padmapani-met-sources.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Buddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani," accession 1989.294. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/buddha-preaching-first-sermon-maitreya-padmapani-met-sourcesCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-buddha-pr, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Buddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani," accession 1989.294}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/buddha-preaching-first-sermon-maitreya-padmapani-met-sources}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA citation to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own online collection catalogue record for this stele, accession 1989.294, read directly through the museum's public collection data. Its strength is a directly examined institutional catalogue record naming the accession, culture, period, medium and dimensions of a small, precisely dated votive object. Its limit is that the record itself carries no extended interpretive text; the surrounding art historical account of the Buddha's First Sermon and its Nepalese Licchavi period sculptural tradition draws on general scholarship rather than on this catalogue entry alone.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (34 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, catalogue entryPublisherWell-attestedThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublication YearWell-attested2026URLWell-attestedhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38358Source TypeWell-attestedMuseumAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1The custodian museum's own public collection API record for this exact accession, directly examined.Claims Backed By This Source (34 claims)This source backs 34 claims across the atlas. As facts: 25 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSacred Art & Iconography, 19 claims: 12 well-attested, 6 holds, 1 general references.Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.Well-attested25ArticlesA Teaching Small Enough to HoldSetting a Wheel in MotionSacred Art & IconographyBuddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)SourcesThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Buddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani," accession 1989.294Holds6Sacred Art & IconographyBuddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)General References3ArticlesA Teaching Small Enough to HoldSetting a Wheel in MotionSacred Art & IconographyBuddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year