The Karandavyuha Sutra

Object Details

• Description

  A complete manuscript consisting of 77 numbered text folios and two blanks in blue-black paper lettered in gilt, three miniature paintings, and a pair of polychrome painted wooden covers.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Dharma and Punya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal (September 2 to December 31, 2019)

• Origin

  Kathmandu, Nepal

• Credit Line

  Gift of A. Peter Burleigh

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Date

  1670s

• Place

  Kathmandu, Nepal

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Worship, Art, King, Queen, Portraits, Sutra, Avalokite?svara (Buddhist deity), Fudo Myo-o, Manjushri, Bodhisattva

• Culture

  Buddhists, Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts