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Upasakasila Sutra - Fascicle 6
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Upasakasila Sutra - Fascicle 6
CHINA; Northern Liang Kingdom (397–439); Clerical-regular script; Ink on hemp paper; H: 27 cm; National Museum of China, Beijing
This undated remnant of a hand-copied sutra has calligraphy within black ink column grid lines, and includes approximately 17 characters in each line. The fragment is from the Fascicle 6 of the Upasakasila Sutra, wherein the last section of the Chapter on Five Precepts" and the front portion of the "Chapter on the Perfection of Moral Discipline" are scripted in about 300 characters. A similar piece from the same sutra was cataloged in Luo Zhenyu's Shades of Ink of the Han and Jin Dynasties |
