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Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara.
Date
700 to 849
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Measurement
height 79.3 centimetres, width 62 centimetres
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Description
Scope and content : Ch. xxxiii. 002. Silk painting representing Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara; without border, but otherwise complete and in good condition. Treatment of chief fig. same as in series described under *Ch. 00223; but picture of smaller size, and secondary figs. reduced to four only: Bodhisattvas of Sun and Moon in L. and R. top corners resp., and donor in each of bottom corners.
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DHMG.
Stein site number
Ch.xxxiii.002
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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