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Manuscript fragment of the Great Nirvana Sutra

386-907

Ink on paper

2 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (6 x 14.9 cm)

Gift of Lucy L. Lo

2022.11.2

Provenance: Acquired 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

Not currently on view

Resources

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

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