Miraculous Image of Liangzhou
| Miraculous Image of Liangzhou | |
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| Material | Silk |
| Size | 2.4 m high, 1.6 m wide |
| Created | 8th century AD |
| Present location | British Museum, London |
| Registration | MAS,0.1129 |
The Miraculous Image of Liangzhou is an 8th-century silk embroidery on hemp cloth found in the Mogao Caves in China,[1] as part of the large deposit of various types of artefact uncovered in a sealed off library in 1907 by Sir Aurel Stein.
Description
Originally interpreted as Sakyamuni preaching on the Vulture Peak,[2] the embroidered scene is now thought to depict a Buddha emerging from a rocky mountain in Liangzhou. The standing Buddha is flanked by the bodhisattvas Ananda (left) and Kashyapa (right), with male and female donor figures at the bottom.
Conservation
In 2017, the British Museum published a video series[3] detailing the conservation process of the embroidery.
See also
References
Bibliography
- Sue Brunning, Luk Yu-ping, Elisabeth R. O'Connell, Tim Williams: Silk Roads (British Museum Press, 2024)
