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Buddhist Initiation Paintings from the Yuan Court (1271-1368) in the Sino-Himalayan Style

Fig. 28: Manjusri
silk tapestry (k’o-ssu)
29.4 x 28.1 cm.
Yuan period
National Palace Museum, Taiwan.
After Michael Henss, “The Woven Image: Tibeto-Chinese Textiles of the Yuan and Early Ming Dynasties” Orientations Magazine (November 1997), fig. 1 (l);
Amitayus tsakli, distemper on cloth, c. 16 x 17 cm. (see fig. 23) (r)

text and images © Jane Casey