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Document Box (Ryōshibako) with Gong, Vajra, and Sutra Design
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Department of Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes; Gift of Elaine Ehrenkranz
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Section of Chapter 17 from the "Ten Practices" Volume of the Flower Ornament Sutra (J: Daihōkōbutsu kegonkyō; Skt: Avatamsaka-sutra)
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"The Former Deeds of Bodhisattva Medicine King," Chapter 23 of the Lotus Sutra (Hokekyō)
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The Lotus Sutra (Miaofa Lianhua Jing) with Illustrated Frontispiece
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One Page from the Ksitigarbha-Bodhisattva-Pranidhana-Sutra (Sutra of the Oath of the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha)
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Judva's Thunderbolt, Shimboonath [Swayambhunath]
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Photograph of the thunderbolt at Swayambhunath in
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taken in ca. 1901 and part of the Curzon Collection. Both Buddhi...
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Pencil, wash and watercolour drawing of the stupa
at Svayambhunath in Nepal, part of the Lawrence collection created
by an anonymous artist, c. 1843-1846. The image, set within a b...