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Or.8210/S.253

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

現在賢劫千佛名經 Thousand Buddhas of the Present Kalpa Sutra (Book of Buddha's Names)

Date

800 to 1000

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 27.5 centimetres, width 225 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

Buddhism Illustrated

Description

Scope and content : A text listed among the apochrypha in the 'Kaiyuan shijiao lu' in 730, rejected as 'a haphazard mixture of lewd, vulgar language with sacred words' and also because it makes the mistake of referring to the travel account of the 4th century monk, Faxian, as a sutra.

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

Giles, LDescriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British MuseumLondonBritish Museum1957ManuscriptsDunhuangGoldenLight

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