The painting, which was at the eastern gable wall of the Main Hall of the monastery,[2] was purchased by Arthur M. Sackler and later was given to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States in 1954.

[2] Saptatathāgatapūrvapranidhānavisēsa Sūtra, a Buddhist sutta translated by Yi Jing (635-713), mentions that there were six predecessor Buddhas before Bhaisajyaguru.

The central figure of Bhaisajyaguru Buddha is holding a bowl in his left hand symbolizing medicine.

The robust and full-faced figures are characteristic of the paintings of Zhu Haogu (朱好古), who engaged in Buddhist and Daoist imagery in the fourteenth century.

The painting, which was at the front hall of Guangsheng Lower Monastery, belongs to China's Yuan dynasty period.

[1] During the 1920s, monks had sold the murals which were on the gable walls of the front hall of Guangsheng Lower Monastery to find funds for the renovations of the temple.