A Study on Dunhuang Silk Paintings Дх224,Дх15,and 4x223,Images of the"Maitreya Sutra Illustration"from a Russian Collection
Silk paintings of the Maitreya Sutra Illustration from Dunhuang,numbered Дх224,Дх 15,and Дх223 and currently held in the State Hermitage Museum in Russia,are fragments of one of two silk paintings depicting the descent of Maitreya into the Buddhist heavens found in the Library Cave of Dunhuang.A comparison of these fragments with images of the same illustration from Dunhuang murals and silk painting Stein painting 11 kept in the British Museum suggests that the fragments contain illustrations from both Sutra on Maitreya's Descent as well as Sutra on Maitreya's Ascension into Tusita Heaven.By combining research on these images with the texts of relevant Buddhist scriptures,this paper discusses the contents,artistic style and dates of the illustrations in detail.
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