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Manuscript fragment of the Great Nirvana Sutra
Image Not Available for Manuscript fragment of the Great Nirvana Sutra

Manuscript fragment of the Great Nirvana Sutra

Date386-907
Object number2022.11.2
ProvenanceAcquired by James C. M. Lo (1902-1987, Luo Jimei) and Lucy Lo (b. 1920, Liu Xian), New Jersey, ca. 1943-44, when they found the fragments exposed in the sands of the Dunhuang Caves; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2022
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chronicles of a Global East, Oct. 20, 2022 - Oct. 22, 2023.Published ReferencesChen Huaiyu, “Pulinsidun suo sian Luoshi cane Dunhuang Tulufan wenshu” (Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Turfan in the private collection of James and Lucy Lo that I examined), Dunhuangxue: Pan Chonggui xiansheng shishi zhounian jinian zhuanji (Dunhuang Studies: Special number to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Pan Chonggui) 25 (2004), pp. 419-41. 陳懷宇著《普林斯頓所見羅氏藏敦煌吐魯番文書》,發表於《敦煌學》第二十五輯(潘重規先生逝世周年紀念專輯),敦煌學會編印,2004年
Credit LineGift of Lucy L. Lo
Dimensions2 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (6 x 14.9 cm)
MediumInk on paper
Photo: Scott Leen
Chinese
618-907
Object number: 2022.11.4
Paul Macapia
ca. 1700
Object number: 98.53.9
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1991
Object number: 2012.4.2
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1994
Object number: 2011.15.3
Unknown artist
ca. 1785
Object number: 2014.24.1
Paul Macapia
Object number: 2003.118