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Or.8210/S.2872

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

A list of sutras translated into Chinese on a manuscript scroll.

Date

500 to 599

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 26 centimetres, width 28 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

Buddhism

Description

Scope and content : Thirty-six works, mostly shorter Mahayana texts, were supposed to have been translated by Zhi Qian between AD 220 and 252. These included a version of the Dharmapada and one of the Vimalakirtinirdesasutra, both of which survive. Catalogued in Giles 1955: 7898 and Zwalf 1985: 96.

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)


Lay Students and the Making of Written Vernacular Narrative (Mair 1981)

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

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