Two pages of Buddhist manuscript (text of Ashtashasrika Prajnaparamita)

late 11th century

Ink and color on palm leaf

1 15/16 x 21 7/8 in. (5 x 55.5 cm)

Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund

59.61.1

Provenance: [Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1959]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum (Margaret E. Fuller purchase fund), March 30, 1959

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Discovering Buddhist Art - Seeking the Sublime", July 9, 2003 - June 3, 2005

Published ReferencesTrubner, Henry, William Rathbun, and Catherine Kaputa. "Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum: A Selection and Catalogue." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1973, p. 113, no. 41

Pal, Pratapaditya. “Arts of Nepal, Volume II: Paintings.” Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978, nos. 37, 42, 47-48 (59.61), 94, 117, figs. 34-36

Huntington, Susan L. “Leaves from the Bodhi Tree: The Art of Pala India (8th-12th centuries) and Its International Legacy.” Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute in association with the University of Washington Press, 1989, pp. 261-263

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