Scenes from the Life of Buddha Shakyamuni, Covers of an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Verses)

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Scenes from the Life of Buddha Shakyamuni, Covers of an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Verses)

Nepal, 12th century

Manuscripts

Opaque watercolor on wood

2 1/8 x 22 1/8 x 1/2 in.; 5.4 x 56.2 x 1.3 cm

From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase (M.77.19.1a-b)

South and Southeast Asian Art

Not currently on public view

Bibliography

Kramrisch, Stella. The Art of Nepal. New York: The Asia House Inc., 1964.
Rosenfield, John. The Arts of India and Nepal: The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966.

Kramrisch, Stella. The Art of Nepal. New York: The Asia House Inc., 1964.
Rosenfield, John. The Arts of India and Nepal: The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966.
Pal, Pratapaditya; R. Brown; R. Fisher; G. Kuwayama; Amy G. Poster. Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian Art. ed. Dean, Lynne. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Nepal. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press, 1985.
Brown, Waka Takahashi. "Life of Buddha" class lesson. Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education, Spring 2002.
Brown, Robert L. "Telling the Story in Art of the Monkey's Gift of Honey to the Buddha." Bulletin of the Asia Institute New Series/23 (2009): 43-52.

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