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

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Fig 53.
On the left:
Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī as Tikshna-Mañjuśrī,
12th century, Xi Xia Empire, cave 465, Mogao,
(after Duan Wenjie et al. Dunhuang Shiku Yishu: Mogaoku Di Siliuwu Ku (YUAN)[The Art of the Dunhuang Caves: Mogao Cave No: 465: Yuan]. Nanjing, 1996: 119.).

On the right:
Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī as Tikshna-Mañjuśrī,
Yongle reign (1403-1424), Ming dynasty,
gilt brass,
19.1 cm.
the Metropolitan Museum of Art (after Leidy, Denise Patry. at el. Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010).