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Buddhist magic diagram or Maṇḍala.
Date
851 to 900
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height 58.5 centimetres, width 57.5 centimetres
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Scope and content : Ch. 00189. Drawing on paper with Chin. inscr., showing Buddhist magic diagram or Maṇḍala. General plan as in *Ch. 00190, etc., but on larger scale and more elaborate in detail. In middle a sixteen-pointed wheel, with many-petalled lotus at centre; wheel much conventionalized and its points orn. with jewels.
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DHMG.
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Ch.00189
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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