The Xi Xia Legacy in Sino-Tibetan Art of the Yuan Dynasty

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Fig 19.
A frontispiece (detail) for the sutra The Meditation of Maitreya Being Reborn in Tushita Heaven,
1189, Khara Khoto, Xi Xia Empire,
woodblock print on paper,
the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St.Petersburg (TK 81)
(after: Saliceti-Collins, Anne. A Masters Degree Thesis ‘ Xi Xia Buddhist Woodblock prints Excavated in Khara Khoto: A Case Study on Transculturation in East Asia, Eleventh-Thirteenth centuries.’ Washington: University of Washington, 2007).