Vajrapani - Bodhisattva
(item no. 74304)

China

800 - 899

Buddhist Lineage

55x14.50cm (21.65x5.71in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of The British Museum

(1919,1-1,0.103, Gift of Sir Marc Aurel Stein)

 


Vajrapani, Bodhisattva.

R. Whitfield, Art of Central Asia: The Stein collection in the British Museum, vol. 1 (Tokyo, Kodansha International Ltd., 1982-85), plate 48, p. 334

R. Whitfield and A. Farrer, Caves of the thousand Buddhas: Chinese art from the Silk Route (London, The British Museum Press, 1990), p. 62, no. 36

Front of Painting
English Translation of Inscription: (Tibetan inscription on front).



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