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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Serving the Buddha—Sutra recitations
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Serving the Buddha—Sutra recitations

Date1994
Object number2011.15.3
ProvenanceThe artist; purchased from the artist by Qianshen Bai, 2010; purchased from Professor Bai by the Seattle Art Museum, 2011
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Frank S. Bayley III and Cheney Cowles
Dimensions12 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 1/2 in. (31.8 x 22.2 x 1.3 cm)
MediumAlbum: Ink on paper
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Koran Leaf
Persian
1625
Object number: 33.1564
Photo: Paul Macapia
A White-eared Bulbul; Lovers in a Garden
Riza Abbasi
1629 - 1635
Object number: 50.111
Photo: Scott Leen
Album painting in fan shape
1870s-1880s
Object number: 92.47.323.18
Image Not Available for Album paintings in fan shape
Album paintings in fan shape
Japanese
17th - 19th century
Object number: 92.47.323
Image Not Available for Manuscript fragment of Datong fangguang chanhui miezui zhuangyan chengfo jing (Sutra on solemn attainment of Buddhahood by means of repentance to extinguish sins in a great, thorough, and broad way)
Manuscript fragment of Datong fangguang chanhui miezui zhuangyan chengfo jing (Sutra on solemn attainment of Buddhahood by means of repentance to extinguish sins in a great, thorough, and broad way)
Chinese
8th century
Object number: 2017.21
Photo: Scott Leen
Manuscript fragment of Da zhidu lun (Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra)
Chinese
7th-8th century
Object number: 2022.11.1
Image Not Available for Manuscript fragment of the Great Nirvana Sutra
Manuscript fragment of the Great Nirvana Sutra
Chinese
386-907
Object number: 2022.11.2
Image Not Available for Manuscript fragment of the Diamond Sutra
Manuscript fragment of the Diamond Sutra
Chinese
618-907
Object number: 2022.11.3
Photo: Scott Leen
Manuscript fragment of the Lotus Sutra
Chinese
618-907
Object number: 2022.11.4
Image Not Available for Great Shomu: Section of the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish
Great Shomu: Section of the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish
8th century
Object number: 2020.23.1
Photo: Jueqian Fang
Section of Avatamsaka Sutra
Japanese
8th century
Object number: 2020.23.2
Photo: Jueqian Fang
Section of Lotus Sutra
Japanese
11th century
Object number: 2020.23.3