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Seven Leaves from a Manuscript of the Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)
1000s-1100s
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on palm leaves
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 4.2 x 52.4 cm (1 5/8 x 20 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Nepal
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
These pages come from a long horizontal book of 355 palm leaves, now dispersed among many collections. Featuring the pilgrim Sudhana on his quest to reach enlightenment, the text was especially influential in the spread of Buddhism to East Asia. These leaves are from the sole surviving illustrated manuscript of this text in its original language of Sanskrit.
