Nepal / 1000s-1100s
Seven Leaves from a Manuscript of the Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Seven Leaves from a Manuscript of the Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array) as painting (Nepal · 1000s-1100s).
Russian artist Svyatoslav Roerich (1904–1993) collected 144 pages of this manuscript in India.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as Gum tempera and ink on palm leaves.
The museum's collection notes: These pages come from a long horizontal book of 355 palm leaves, now dispersed among many collections. Featuring the pilgrim Sudhana on his quest to reach enlightenment, the text was especially influential in the spread of Buddhism to East Asia. These leaves are from the sole surviving illustrated manuscript of this text in its original language of Sanskrit.
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