Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting: The Palm-Leaf Tradition July 29, 2008–March 22, 2009 August 27, 2008

Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for the Arts of South and Southeast Asia, 3rd floor
This installation of thirty palm-leaf folios features some of the earliest surviving Indian illuminated manuscripts dating from the tenth to the thirteenth century. It centers on one remarkable Mahayanist Buddhist text, the Ashtasahashirika Prajnaparamita Sutra ("Perfection of Wisdom"), illustrated through the Museum’s rare holdings of eastern Indian and Nepalese illuminated palm-leaf manuscripts, book-covers, initiation cards, thankas, and sculptures.

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