Folio from a Gandavyuha Manuscript, 12th century. Colors on palm leaf, 2 x 21 5/8 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.136 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.136_PS2.jpg)
Folio from a Gandavyuha Manuscript, 12th century. Colors on palm leaf, 2 x 21 5/8 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.136 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.136_acetate_bw.jpg)
Folio from a Gandavyuha Manuscript, 12th century. Colors on palm leaf, 2 x 21 5/8 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.136 (Photo: , 86.227.136_86.227.137.jpg)
Folio from a Gandavyuha Manuscript
Asian Art
On View: Asian Galleries, Arts of the Himalayas, 2nd floor
MEDIUM
Colors on palm leaf
DATES
12th century
PERIOD
Pala Period
DIMENSIONS
2 x 21 5/8 in. (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
86.227.136
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
PROVENANCE
Prior to 1963, provenance not yet documented; before 1963, possibly acquired by Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck of New York, NY; by 1963, acquired by Ernest Erickson; 1986, gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation to the Brooklyn Museum.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
One of two pages in the collection from a manuscript of the Gandavyuha, a Mahayana Buddhist text narrating the pilgrimage of Sudhana. The text is in Sanskrit.
The image on this page represents an unidentified deity teaching Sudhana.
The illustration painted on a blue background at the center of the leaf depicts a seated Bodhisattva holding a text in his left hand lectures to a kneeling worshipper. Text on reverse. Two holes for threading pages divide text into three sections (AGP).
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Asian Galleries, Arts of the Himalayas, 2nd floor
CAPTION
Folio from a Gandavyuha Manuscript, 12th century. Colors on palm leaf, 2 x 21 5/8 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.136 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.136_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 86.227.136_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2011
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