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Or.8210/S.1963

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

Scroll of Suvarnaprabhasasutra (Sutra of Golden Light) in Chinese.

Date

750 to 799

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 27 centimetres, width 600 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

Buddhism colophons

Description

Scope and content : Catalogued by Giles 1955: 2174 and Zwalf 1985: 77.Colophon reads: The Buddhist disciple Lu, on behalf of her deceased ancestors of seven previous incarnations and her kinsfolk.... and because she herself has fallen into the hands of foreign barbarians [Tibetans],has reverently caused one roll of the sutra to be copied, praying that the two countries [ China andTibet] may live in amity, that hostilities may ceased and that all homeless people may speedily reach their native villages.

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.79.XV.13

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

Buddhism: Art and Faith (Zwalf)

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

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