1919,0101,0.71

Description

Scope and content : Ch. xxi. 0015. Paper painting with Chin. inscr., showing Bhaiṣajya-buddha seated between Avalokiteśvara (Kuan-yin) and Vajragarbha. Painting backed with another sheet of paper, orn. with square repeating rosettes; interlining of coarse linen. B., sits on pink-tipped Padmāsana; R. hand holding beggar’s staff over shoulder; L. on knee holding rice-bowl. Under-robe green, mantle crimson barred and bordered with green, covering both shoulders and arms. Hair black, face brownish flesh-colour shaded with red; circular halo and vesica of variegated rings of colour; canopy on flowering tree above. Bodhisattvas of type *Ch. 002. Painting in broad style, lower half much obscured by dirt; colouring crimson, green, slate, and orange. Border of half-rosettes on orange ground down sides.