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Book cover with paper painting of Bodhisattva of the Sun.
Date
851 to 950
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height 14.3 centimetres, width 10 centimetres
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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’.
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DHMG.
Stein site number
Ch.00211
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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