Medium: Colors on palm leaf
Geograhical Locations:
Dates:12th century
Dimensions: 2 x 21 5/8 in.
Collections:
Museum Location: Asian Galleries, Arts of the Himalayas, 2nd floor
Exhibitions:
Accession Number: 86.227.136
Image: 86.227.136_PS2.jpg,
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).