Text, folio 4 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
1119
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
- Dimensions
- Leaf: 5.4 x 56.2 cm (2 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu
About
This manuscript, consisting of 188 double-sided folios, was calligraphed by a scribe at a monastery in northeastern India, commissioned by a monk from Nepal.