Collection object "Or.8210/S.4289" • Diagrammatic copy of the Prajnaparamitahrdayasutra (Heart Sutra)…

Title

Diagrammatic copy of the Prajnaparamitahrdayasutra (Heart Sutra) in Chinese from Dunhuang.

Date

800 to 899

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 47 centimetres, width 22 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

Description

Scope and content : In form of a small vertical scroll with the yellow-dyed paper attached to a small piece of ?indigo-dyed paper at the bottom which is wrapped around a wooden roller. The verso of the indigo part contains some fraint characters - possibly in silver ink? Catalogued in Giles 1955: and Zwalf 1985: 68. Also on exhibition at British Library Silk Road, 2004, and Asmolean 2017.

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.80.XIII.51

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

Or.8210/S.4289