Period:Unknown Production date:7thC
Materials:schist
Technique:carved
Subjects:buddha
Dimensions:Height: 8.50 centimetres
Description:
A leaf in black schist from a diptych depicting on one side a headless seated figure, probably an ascetic and on the other the Assault of Mara in the upper register and in the lower the First Sermon.
IMG
![图片[1]-diptych BM-1902-1220.176-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00249096_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-diptych BM-1902-1220.176-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00318672_001.jpg)
Comments:Zwalf 1985Similar leaves of carved stone survive, parts of diptychs, portable folding objects showing scenes from the Buddha’s life. The headless figure, hand on chin and seated on a stool above his Brahmin’s waterpot, may be the ascetic who predicted the newborn’s Buddha destiny; on the reverse panels show, above, the assault of Māra and, below, the First Sermon with the wheel just recognisable below the Buddha. The leaf was found at Khotan, in Central Asia, and is not the only example of this kind of object to have been found outside the Kashmir- Gandhara area of its manufacture.
Materials:schist
Technique:carved
Subjects:buddha
Dimensions:Height: 8.50 centimetres
Description:
A leaf in black schist from a diptych depicting on one side a headless seated figure, probably an ascetic and on the other the Assault of Mara in the upper register and in the lower the First Sermon.
IMG
Comments:Zwalf 1985Similar leaves of carved stone survive, parts of diptychs, portable folding objects showing scenes from the Buddha’s life. The headless figure, hand on chin and seated on a stool above his Brahmin’s waterpot, may be the ascetic who predicted the newborn’s Buddha destiny; on the reverse panels show, above, the assault of Māra and, below, the First Sermon with the wheel just recognisable below the Buddha. The leaf was found at Khotan, in Central Asia, and is not the only example of this kind of object to have been found outside the Kashmir- Gandhara area of its manufacture.
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