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booklet

1919,0101,0.207

ink and colours on paper

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Title

Book cover with paper painting of Bodhisattva of the Sun.

Date

851 to 950

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 14.3 centimetres, width 10 centimetres

Language / script

Chinese (script) Chinese (lang.)

Subject

Buddhism donor

Description

Scope and content : Ch. 00211. Paper painting, accompanying cover of Chin. MS. book(?). Cover consists of strip of dark purple cotton (?) fabric, closely woven in small lozenge diaper, neatly turned in round edges and measuring so 53″ × 10″. Over inner side was pasted sheet of paper, the L. half of which has been torn off. It evidently however contained a painting, as remains of streamers and scarves of fig. remain on edge of part preserved. This R.-hand half otherwise is blank except for four Chin. chars. signifying the ‘Eight Vajrapāṇis’.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.00211

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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