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| Keywords: Tibetan - Buddha Shakyamuni and Prajnaparamita - Walters W8561.jpg This is a leaf from a Prajnaparamita Perfection of Wisdom manuscript The text written in Tibetan language and script is a translation of a Sanskrit text that was produced in India as much as a thousand years earlier The translation of hundreds and hundreds of texts into Tibetan was an immense cultural achievement On the left appears the Buddha Shakyamuni on the night of his enlightenment at Bodhgaya The tree under which he was enlightened appears above the temple The goddess at right is Prajnaparamita a personification of the text or an embodiment of its words This is the first leaf The last leaf includes a statement that this sacred object was commissioned by two children for the use of their parents following their rebirth on earth century 13 ink paint paper cm 23 81 69 22 ; Framed cm 32 39 84 77 5 72 accession number W 856 1 40884 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2001 Buddhist text Goddess Divine Energy Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 2006-2007 Embodying the Holy Icons in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism Rubin Museum of Art New York 2010-2011 place of origin Tibet Walters Art Museum license 2D Tibetan art in the Walters Art Museum Tibetan manuscripts Tibetan writing Buddha Prajnaparamita Tibet in the 13th century | ||||
