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Or.8210/S.6983

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

Illustrated Lotus Sutra (Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra) manuscript booklet from Dunhuang.

Date

800 to 999

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

depth 1.5 centimetres, height 10 centimetres, width 18 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

Buddhism Illustrated

Description

Scope and content : This contains the text of chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra, also known as the Avalokitesvarasutra. This booklet has not been bound in any conventional format. Each folio has been folded in the butterfly style, but have not been glued together. Instead, one hole has been made the top of the spine, and a red silk thread binds the folios together using this hole.

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)

Whitfield, RoderickAn Art Treasury of China and Mankind: Some Recent Studies on the Dunhuang CavesOrientations20. 334-40March 1989Dunhuangcollections_dh
Zwalf,WBuddhism, Art and FaithLondonBritish Museum1985ChinaBuddhismArtGoldenLight

Sponsors

The digitisation of this sutra has been generously sponsored by Sir Matthew Farrer on 11 December 2000.

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