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Sealing with Enthroned Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness
Not on view
Making these multiple clay impressions, pressed by hand from a metal or fired-clay matrix, was a simple and inexpensive means by which Buddhist devotees could accrue religious merit. A number of Myanmar Buddhist moldings bear inscriptions on the reverse including the donor’s name. Some add that the icon was made “with my own hands, for the sake of deliverance”; in one instance, the donor is identified as a queen. One sutra compares writing the dharma verses and installing them in a stupa to “doing homage by offering up a rare jewel.”
cat. no. 54
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