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Buddhist Manuscript: Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Verses (Sanskrit: Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita) with Decorated Wooden Sutra Covers

Buddhist Manuscript: Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Verses (Sanskrit: Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita) with Decorated Wooden Sutra Covers

Nepalese

An incomplete manuscript comprised of thirteen detached leaves and decorated wooden upper and lower covers. One cover depicts a seated Bodhisattva Prajñaparamita, the other depicts the Buddha surrounded by a mandorla. The thirteen leaves are manuscript folios 62-67, 75-79, 81, and 83.

Double-sided, detached-leaf manuscript (incomplete) with upper and lower covers; ink on palm leaves; covers: wood with polychromy

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