Eight Great Events in the Life of the Buddha: Folios and Covers from a Pancaraksha Manuscript
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This traditional Indian manuscript is the oldest form of the book recorded in India. It is known from the second century A.D. The earliest example with painted illuminations dates from the eleventh century.
Artwork Details
- Title: Eight Great Events in the Life of the Buddha: Folios and Covers from a Pancaraksha Manuscript
- Date: dated 1156–1157
- Culture: Bihar, eastern India
- Medium: Ink on palm leaf; painted wooden covers
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Lent by Museum Rietberg Zürich, Gift of Fritz and Monica von Schulthess
- Rights and Reproduction: Museum Rietberg Zürich, Gift of Fritz and Monica von Schulthess
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art