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IOL San 1492

ink on palm leaf

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Title

Pothi manuscript of Satasahasrika Prajnaparamitasutra in Sanskrit.

Date

700 to 799

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 4.8 centimetres, width 55 centimetres

Material

ink on palm leaf

Language / script

Sanskrit (lang.) Brahmi (script)

Subject

pothi Buddhism Sponsored

Description

Scope and content : Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. Incomplete. 69 folios remaining - whole text would have been c.1,000. Catalogued in Zwalf 1985: 64.

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.0079a

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

Buddhism: Art and Faith (Zwalf)

Zwalf,WBuddhism, Art and FaithLondonBritish Museum1985ChinaBuddhismArtGoldenLight
Whitfield, SusanAurel Stein and the Silk RoadLondonThe British Museum2004explorationwhitfield_susan

Sponsors

The digitisation of this manuscript has been made possible thanks to the support of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/).

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