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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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Dunhuang art -- Samantabhadra and Manjushri, ink and colours on silk

These large paintings were originally paired. Although painted on silk they are very similar to wall paintings of the same period in their style and iconography. It was common practice in the Mogao caves for two wall paintings to be executed facing each o...

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Dunhuang art -- Samantabhadra, ink and colours on a silk banner

From Cave 17, Mogao, near Dunhuang, Gansu province, ChinaTang dynasty, late 8th - early 9th century ADBanner painting of a popular bodhisattvaThe triangular to...

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Dunhuang art -- Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on a silk banner

This painting was executed in a more sketchy style than others of a similar subject from the Mogao caves. The highly finished paintings, where expensive colours and even gold were used, were reserved for the privileged donors who paid the most. Those in a...

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Mystery Along the Silk Road: The Discovery of the Black City of Khara Khoto

In this Therese Schoofs Memorial Lecture, Asian Art Museum Docent, Julia Verzhbinsky, discusses the discovery of the "black city" of Khara Khoto....

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