The Earliest Comic Works of Tibetan Miniature Art:An Interpretation to the Fragmented Illustration of Sadaprarudita Bodhisattva Pursuing Dharma in the Eight-Thousand Verses of Blos stang Monastery,rTsa mdav County,TAR
The 48-paged fragmented manuscript,one of the few early Tibetan miniatures,of the Blos stang Monastery,rTsa mdav County,TAR,illustrates Sadāprarudita Bodhisattva(Ever-weeping Bodhisattva)pursuing the Perfection of Wisdom based on The Eulogy of 8000 Lines(The Eight Thousand Verses,《八千颂》)with 104 pieces of miniature,text and images dated to the 11th-13th centuries.Specifically,it describes the content included in the'Chapter on Sadāprarudita'(《常啼菩萨品》)and the'Chapter on Dharmodgata'(《法涌菩萨品》)page-by-page.The colored manuscripts with comic-styled composition that enriches the expression of content plays with historical,artistic and academic value for the research on the relations between theme,composition,text and image of early Tibetan illustrated art.
Blos stang MonasteryEight Thousand VersesSadāprarudita Bodhisattva's questing for Dharmaimage contenttext and imagecomposition pattern
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