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Dunhuang art -- Illustration to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra, ink and colours on silk

Vimalakirti, the hero of the Vimalakirtinirdesha sutra, is a sage who though has a family and lives in a house in the town of Vaishali, manages to defeat the bodhisattvas in a debate about non-duality. Although written in India, the Vimalakirtinirdesha Su...

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Dunhuang art -- Paradise of Amitabha, ink and colours on silk

Pure Land sutras, which describe the Paradises of various Buddhas, became very popular in Dunhuang during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The most influential was the Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha. Pure Land painting also became popular. Although th...

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Dunhuang art -- Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru, ink and colours on silk

This large painting is devoted to Bhaishajyaguru, the Buddha of Healing. Dated and inscribed in both Chinese and Tibetan, is an interesting example of how different modes of painting reached a unique synthesis in the multi-cultural climate of Dunhuang. Th...

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Dunhuang art -- Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru, ink and colours on silk

Sutras and rituals connected to Bhaishajyaguru, the Buddha of Healing, were among the most popular in Dunhuang. His Pure Land or Paradise was often depicted on walls of the caves built during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), similar in style to the central...

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Dunhuang art -- Monk seated in meditation, ink and colours on paper

The cave where the paintings were found sealed up at Mogao, known as Cave 17, was originally built as a memorial chapel for Hongbian, a monk who was active there in the ninth century. His statue was removed when the bundles of silk paintings were put into...

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Dunhuang art -- Manjushri visiting Vimalakirti, ink and colours on paper

This painting shows Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, seated on a lion throne when visiting the sage Vimalakirti. The details - described in the entry on the illustration to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra (see Related Objects) - are known from other po...

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Dunhuang art -- Patchwork of silk, probably a kasaya

Sir Marc Aurel Stein originally suggested that this large patchwork was an altar-cloth, though it has now been identified as a kasaya, a Buddhist monastic robe. The symmetrical arrangement of patches along a central vertical axis is consistent with the pr...

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Dunhuang art -- Representations of Famous Buddhist Images, ink and colours on silk (fragments)

From Cave 17, Mogao, near Dunhuang, Gansu province, ChinaTang dynasty, 7th - 8th century ADModels for passing on Buddhist iconographyThese fragments are from a...

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Chris
Hi - How much does this cost in RMB for two people mid August ?

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