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Folio from a Gandavyuha Manuscript

Medium: Colors on palm leaf
Place Made: Nepal
Dates: 12th century
Dimensions: 2 x 21 5/8 in.
Collections: Asian Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 86.227.136
Credit Line: Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
Image: Group, 86.227.136_86.227.137.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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. Other pages from this manuscript are in several Western museums.

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