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00:18 10/31/2009

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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: 86.227.137
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 Sudhana standing holding a lotus in a forest setting (suggested by a tree, a bush, and a reclining deer). Other pages from this manuscript are in several Western museums.

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