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Or.8210/S.3961

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

Illustrated manuscript scroll of the Sutra of the Ten Kings in Chinese

Date

900 to 1000

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 29 centimetres, width 491 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

Buddhism Illustrated Sponsored

Description

Scope and content : An apocryphal Chinese sutra describing the ten stages the dead pass through after death before their reincarnation or descent into hell. Catalogued in Giles 1955: 5456, Zwalf 1985: 103, Whitfield 2004.

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

Buddhism: Art and Faith (Zwalf)

Giles, LDescriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British MuseumLondonBritish Museum1957ManuscriptsDunhuangGoldenLight
Zwalf,WBuddhism, Art and FaithLondonBritish Museum1985ChinaBuddhismArtGoldenLight

Sponsors

The digitisation of this manuscript has been sponsored by Scott Ballantyne of Xiamen, China

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