Period:Tang dynasty Production date:9thC
Materials:paper, 紙 (Chinese),
Technique:printed, woodblock, 印刷的 (Chinese), 版畫 (Chinese),
Subjects:bodhisattva 菩薩 (Chinese)
Dimensions:Height: 27.50 centimetres Width: 42 centimetres
Description:
Scroll, woodblock print. Joined sheets of paper carrying hundreds of individually impressed seated bodhisattvas. Ink on paper.
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![图片[1]-print(scroll); 印刷品(Chinese) BM-1919-0101-0.258-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Tang dynasty/43/mid_00000024_001.jpg)
Comments:Zwalf 1985Among the variety of Buddhist woodblock prints at Dunhuang, those which most eloquently witness personal devotion are fragments of long scrolls, joined sheets of paper carrying hundreds of individually impressed Buddhas or Bodhisattvas. One scroll bears dates showing that twenty-one images were printed on certain days each month. The practice spread to Japan where blocks were commonly engraved with ten or 100 small images. There the printed sheets were paid for by devotees but retained by the monastery and enclosed in bundles within carved wooden images.
Materials:paper, 紙 (Chinese),
Technique:printed, woodblock, 印刷的 (Chinese), 版畫 (Chinese),
Subjects:bodhisattva 菩薩 (Chinese)
Dimensions:Height: 27.50 centimetres Width: 42 centimetres
Description:
Scroll, woodblock print. Joined sheets of paper carrying hundreds of individually impressed seated bodhisattvas. Ink on paper.
IMG
Comments:Zwalf 1985Among the variety of Buddhist woodblock prints at Dunhuang, those which most eloquently witness personal devotion are fragments of long scrolls, joined sheets of paper carrying hundreds of individually impressed Buddhas or Bodhisattvas. One scroll bears dates showing that twenty-one images were printed on certain days each month. The practice spread to Japan where blocks were commonly engraved with ten or 100 small images. There the printed sheets were paid for by devotees but retained by the monastery and enclosed in bundles within carved wooden images.
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