THREE ILLUMINATED SUTRA PAGES
KASHMIR, 12TH CENTURY AND TIBET, 13TH CENTURY
Opaque watercolour and ink on paper; each folio with text on both sides and an illustration recto.
Kashmir: 6 5/8 x 26 5/8 in. (16.8 x 67.7 cm), irregular
Tibet (lama right): 3 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (9.5 x 31 cm), irregular
Tibet (lama left): 4 1/2 x 5 in. (11.5 x 12.7 cm), irregular
Footnotes
克什米爾 十二世紀 及 西藏 十三世紀 彩繪寫經三頁
The first page, with an illustration of Buddha in the center, is from a 12th-century Kashmir Prajnaparimata Sutra. The second, with a lama on the right side of the text, is from a 13th-century Tibetan Abhisamayalamkara Sutra. The third, with a lama on the left side of the text, is from a 13th-century Tibetan sutra.
Published
Matthew Kapstein, ''A Collection of Kanjur Folios with Four Illustrated Pages from a Rnying ma Tantra'', in Orna Almogi (ed.), Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions: The Written Word and Its Media within the Tibetan Culture Sphere, Universität Hamburg, 2016, p. 199, figs. 5, 6 & 7 (the two Tibetan folios only).