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Seated Buddhas.
Date
925 to 975
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Measurement
height 538 centimetres, width 18 centimetres
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Description
Scope and content : Ch. 00476. Roll of silk covered with traced figs. of seated Buddhas; like preceding and Ch. xxiv. 008, but one strip only, without trace of head-piece and uninscr. Ten Buddhas preserved, seated with legs interlocked on successive flowers of ascending lotus plant; hands generally one in vitarka-mudrā, one below it, holding lotus bud, or in adoration. Yellow silk, slightly glazed, unevenly dyed, traced on one side only. Good condition. Length c. 18′, width 7¼″.
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DHMG.
Stein site number
Ch.00476
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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