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AN ILLUMINATED PAGE FROM A BHADRAKALPIKA SUTRA
TIBET, 13TH CENTURY Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on indigo paper; recto with illustrations and indicatory inscriptions; verso with six lines of sutra text alternating in silver and gold calligraphy. Folio: 7 x 24 1/8 in. (17.7 x 61.3 cm)
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西藏 十三世紀 《賢劫經》彩繪經頁Each golden Buddha is identified, from left to right, as Tathagata Tubsal, Tathagata Chandraprabha, Tathagata Kanakaprabha, and Tathagata Legjin. At least three of the four names can be found in the Bhadrakalpika Sutra's list of 1000 Buddhas of our age. This sutra provides an account of the Buddhas who have already appeared during this aeon: Krakucchanda, Kanakamuni, Kasyapa, and Shakyamuni; and the attributes of those yet to come, defining the circumstances of their birth, their special qualities, their disciples, their span of life, the duration of their teachings, and the relics they will leave behind. Compare with other related folios, dated circa 1195, in the Newark Museum of Art (Reynolds, 'New Discoveries About a Set of Tibetan Manuscripts in the Newark Museum', in Orientations, Vol. 18, No. 7, July 1987, pp. 36-42). Also compare the treatment of the attending monks' faces, the red-domed aureole, and triangular projections of the throne-backs behind each Buddha to a late 13th-century painted manuscript cover in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Kossak & Singer, Sacred Visions, New York, 1998, pp.148-9, no.39).