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Absolute Nothingness, Folio from a Shatasahasrika Prajnaparamita (The Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses)11th century

Not on view

Illustrated Tibetan manuscript page with dense script in black ink, featuring a small painting of a four-armed, orange-skinned deity seated on a lotus against a teal background

Illuminated manuscript page with a painted deity figure seated in lotus position on a multicolored lotus throne, wearing a crown and jewelry, set against a gold circular halo with red and yellow bands. Tibetan script text surrounds the illustration on all sides, with an additional line of Tibetan script below the image within a yellow border.

Artist or Maker: Unknown
Title: Absolute Nothingness, Folio from a Shatasahasrika Prajnaparamita (The Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses)
Place Made: Western Tibet, Maryul district, Tholing Monastery
Date Made: 11th century
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions: Image: 3 x 3 5/8 in. (7.62 x 9.2 cm); Sheet: 7 1/2 x 26 1/8 in. (19.05 x 66.35 cm); Frame: 16 1/2 x 34 3/16 x 1 15/16 in. (41.91 x 86.84 x 4.92 cm)
Credit Line: From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Jane and Justin Dart Foundation
Accession Number: M.81.90.14
Classification: Manuscripts
Collecting Area: South and Southeast Asian Art
Selected Bibliography: Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. Los Angeles; Berkeley, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press, 1983.
Pal, Pratapaditya, ed. Aspects of Indian Art: Papers Presented in a Symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1972.
Pal, Pratapaditya. The Art of Tibet. New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1969.
Beguin, Gilles. Dieux et Demons de l'Himalaya: Art du Bouddhisme Lamaique. Paris: Grand Palais, 1977.
Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. Expanded edition. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
Linrothe, Rob. Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and its Legacies. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2014.
Little, Stephen, and Tushara Bindu Gude. Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art across Asia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2025.

Unknown
Absolute Nothingness, Folio from a Shatasahasrika Prajnaparamita (The Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses)11th century

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Unknown
Title: Absolute Nothingness, Folio from a Shatasahasrika Prajnaparamita (The Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses)
Place Made: Western Tibet, Maryul district, Tholing Monastery
Date Made: 11th century
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions: Image: 3 x 3 5/8 in. (7.62 x 9.2 cm); Sheet: 7 1/2 x 26 1/8 in. (19.05 x 66.35 cm); Frame: 16 1/2 x 34 3/16 x 1 15/16 in. (41.91 x 86.84 x 4.92 cm)
Credit Line: From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Jane and Justin Dart Foundation
Accession Number: M.81.90.14
Classification: Manuscripts
Collecting Area: South and Southeast Asian Art
Selected Bibliography: Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. Los Angeles; Berkeley, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press, 1983.
Pal, Pratapaditya, ed. Aspects of Indian Art: Papers Presented in a Symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1972.
Pal, Pratapaditya. The Art of Tibet. New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1969.
Beguin, Gilles. Dieux et Demons de l'Himalaya: Art du Bouddhisme Lamaique. Paris: Grand Palais, 1977.
Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. Expanded edition. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
Linrothe, Rob. Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and its Legacies. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2014.
Little, Stephen, and Tushara Bindu Gude. Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art across Asia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2025.