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

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Horizontal Tibetan manuscript page with dense black script across cream paper, featuring a small inset painting of a multi-armed deity seated on a lotus, framed in gold
Illuminated manuscript page with dense lines of Tibetan script in black ink, and a small rectangular miniature painting at right depicting a seated deity figure with golden halo against an orange background, framed in red.
Illuminated manuscript painting framed by Tibetan script, depicting a seated deity in lotus position on a multicolored lotus throne, with pale skin, elaborate jewelry, red crown, and patterned garments, holding a flowering branch with a small bird; set against a dark circular ground within a rainbow-hued border, with a line of Tibetan script below.

Unknown, Perfection of Insight, Folio from a Shatasahasrika Prajnaparamita (The Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses), 11th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Jane and Justin Dart Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
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Title
Perfection of Insight, 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 9/16 x 3 in. (9.1 x 7.6 cm); Folio: 7 1/2 x 26 1/8 in. (19 x 66.3 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.81.90.8
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. Art of Tibet. Expanded edition. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
  • Beguin, Gilles. Dieux et Demons de l'Himalaya: Art du Bouddhisme Lamaique. Paris: Grand Palais, 1977.
  • 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.
  • Singer, J.C.; Denwood, P. eds. Tibetan Art: Towards a Definition of Style. London: Laurence King Publishing, 1997.

  • Singer, Jane Casey. "Early Thankas: Eleventh - Thirteenth Centuries." Marg 48, no. 1 (1996): 16-31.

  • Linrothe, Rob. Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and its Legacies. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2014.
  • Heller, Amy. "Recent Findings on Textiles from the Tibetan Empire." In Central Asian Textiles and Their Contexts in the Early Middle Ages, edited by Regula Schorta, 175-188. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2006.
  • Little, Stephen, and Tushara Bindu Gude. Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art across Asia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2025.