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Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter
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Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter
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Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter
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Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter
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Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter
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Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter
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Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter
CHINA, Gansu, Dunhuang; Western Xia period (1032–1227); Print on paper; 20.5 x 9 cm; Dunhuang Research Academy, Gansu, China
This illustrated sutra manuscript was discovered in 1959 in a small pagoda on the Dangquan River near the Mogao Caves. The Universal Gateway Chapter " of the Lotus Sutra is arranged in 256 lines of Tangut script on 51 folded manuscript pages. The sutra is wrapped in colored silk with an ancient coin from between 1078 and 1085 tied to the end. Water-Moon Avalokitesvara is printed across the two pages of the frontispiece. The Bodhisattva's left hand rests on the ground and the right hand holds prayer beads. Detailed waves fill the background. In the left corners |
