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Image: Buddhas, Gilgit, 627-628 CE

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Description: Buddha performing the dharmacakra-pravartana mudrā. From a pair of painted covers from Manuscript 3, Saṃghāṭa Sūtra, commissioned by Devaśirikā and Atthocasiṃgha, 627/628 C.E. Gilgit. Pigment on birch bark. 9” × 3”. Museum of the Institute of Central Asian Studies at Kashmir University, Srinigar, Kashmir
Title: Buddhas, Gilgit, 627-628 CE
Credit: Images of the Crowned Buddha along the Silk Road: Iconography and Ideology
Author: Painter: 9th century, Gilgit Photographer: 3”. Museum of the Institute of Central Asian Studies at Kashmir University, Srinigar
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