“Parable of the Medicinal Herbs” (Yakusōyu), Chapter 5 of the Lotus Sutra (Saddharma pundarika)
This sutra once formed part of a much larger set of handscrolls depicting all twenty-eight chapters of the Lotus Sutra, among the most popular Buddhist scriptures. Each scroll consists of a pictorial frontispiece (at far right) followed by a section of text, both brushed in gold paint on indigo-dyed paper. The handscroll on view contains a portion of the Lotus Sutra’s fifth chapter, “Parable of the Medicinal Herbs.”
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