Item: Shakyamuni Buddha - Avadana (teaching stories)

Shakyamuni Buddha surrounded by Avadana Stories. This single composition belongs to a forty-one painting set. See the same composition from a different set and an example of a complete set.

The one hundred stories are based on the Leaves of the Heaven Tree a text composed by the Kashmiri poet Kshemendra (11th century). That text in turn is based on the Avadana stories from the Buddhist Pali canon of authoritative Buddhist scripture.

Jeff Watt 9-2013