Bulletin, Issue 57"Bibliography of publications based upon collections made with the support of the Swedish China research committee, by Fr. E. Åhlander": Bulletin no. 1, p. 185-191. |
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Often the right hand holds a willow branch , but in this example it is raised in the fear - not gesture ; all its fingers , except the index , are bent toward the thumb . The iconography of this Bodhisattva originates in chapter twenty ...
Often the right hand holds a willow branch , but in this example it is raised in the fear - not gesture ; all its fingers , except the index , are bent toward the thumb . The iconography of this Bodhisattva originates in chapter twenty ...
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A well known example contemporary with the Kuan - yin , illustrating this practice is the Sakyamuni Buddha in the Seiryõji , Kyoto , dated to 985 which was brought from China to Japan by the monk Chõnen . See Gregory Henderson and Leon ...
A well known example contemporary with the Kuan - yin , illustrating this practice is the Sakyamuni Buddha in the Seiryõji , Kyoto , dated to 985 which was brought from China to Japan by the monk Chõnen . See Gregory Henderson and Leon ...
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At least one example of those sutras dated to 956 is available in the West , in the collection of His Majesty the King of Sweden . This evidence has been investigated by Soren Edgren , “ The Printed Dharani Sutra of AD 956 ...
At least one example of those sutras dated to 956 is available in the West , in the collection of His Majesty the King of Sweden . This evidence has been investigated by Soren Edgren , “ The Printed Dharani Sutra of AD 956 ...
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