Period:Unknown Production date:10thC
Materials:paper, 紙 (Chinese),
Technique:woodblock, 木版 (Chinese),
Subjects:bodhisattva 菩薩 (Chinese)
Dimensions:Height: 27.30 centimetres (impression) Width: 17.20 centimetres (impression)
Description:
Woodblock print in the shangtu xiawen format (illustration above, text below). The top part shows the seated Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, flanked by two inscribed cartouches. The bottom part contains a long prayer. Printed in ink on paper.
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Comments:Zwalf 1985This print may have been intended to accompany that of Amitabha but when found was pasted over a larger painting with another impression of Avalokiteśvara. The second impression was both hand-coloured and had decorative borders of blue-printed paper at top and bottom. Such prints and numerous votive paintings testify to Avalokiteśvara’s great popularity at Dunhuang and elsewhere in Chinese Buddhist art. Avalokitesvara is a bodhisattva, a divine being who remains on earth to help the faithful. This print has framed inscriptions sitting on lotus pedestals, addressed to Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. Below the image of the deity is the text of a mantra (zhenyan), with a guide to pronouncing it, and a list of benefits one receives from reciting it. The print is one of a series of bodhisattvas in the same format. All show the same skilful carving and uniformity of presentation and were executed at about the same time as the Diamond Sutra. When found by Stein, this print and another one in the BM collection (1919,0101,0.234) had been reused, pasted over a painting. The dark stain is from the adhesive. Published: Stein 1921, vol. II, 986; Whitfield 1982-5, vol.2, 346-7, fig.140
Materials:paper, 紙 (Chinese),
Technique:woodblock, 木版 (Chinese),
Subjects:bodhisattva 菩薩 (Chinese)
Dimensions:Height: 27.30 centimetres (impression) Width: 17.20 centimetres (impression)
Description:
Woodblock print in the shangtu xiawen format (illustration above, text below). The top part shows the seated Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, flanked by two inscribed cartouches. The bottom part contains a long prayer. Printed in ink on paper.
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Comments:Zwalf 1985This print may have been intended to accompany that of Amitabha but when found was pasted over a larger painting with another impression of Avalokiteśvara. The second impression was both hand-coloured and had decorative borders of blue-printed paper at top and bottom. Such prints and numerous votive paintings testify to Avalokiteśvara’s great popularity at Dunhuang and elsewhere in Chinese Buddhist art. Avalokitesvara is a bodhisattva, a divine being who remains on earth to help the faithful. This print has framed inscriptions sitting on lotus pedestals, addressed to Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. Below the image of the deity is the text of a mantra (zhenyan), with a guide to pronouncing it, and a list of benefits one receives from reciting it. The print is one of a series of bodhisattvas in the same format. All show the same skilful carving and uniformity of presentation and were executed at about the same time as the Diamond Sutra. When found by Stein, this print and another one in the BM collection (1919,0101,0.234) had been reused, pasted over a painting. The dark stain is from the adhesive. Published: Stein 1921, vol. II, 986; Whitfield 1982-5, vol.2, 346-7, fig.140
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