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Image Number: 
JRL19060239
Reference Number: 
Chinese Drawings 28
Parent Work Title: 
Wuliangshou Fo
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
無量壽佛
Translated Parent Work Title: 
The Buddha of Measureless Life
Creator: 
Kumārajīva, -412?
Creator Role: 
Translator
Date Created: 
19th century
Volume: 
28
Page/Sheet: 
Plate 24
Image Sequence Number: 
P024
Description: 
Illustration: group of figures looking at an animal, possibly a tiger. Painting on the leaf of the Bodhi tree, accompanied by an extract from the Buddhist text 'Diamond Sutra'.
Language Code: 
chi
Language: 
Chinese
Subject: 
Buddhism
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Technique Used: 
Painting (image-making)
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Support: 
Leaf (plant material)
Item Height: 
285 mm
Item Width: 
390 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Yaying , Zheng & Deane, John, Hand list of the Chinese Collections in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1991
References: 
An Illustrated Catalogue of ‘A Scholars’ Paradise: a Centenary Exhibition of Notable Books and Manuscripts', 30 May to 3 November 2000 at The John Rylands Library, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Volume 82, Numbers 2-3, 2000, pp. 85-254
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2019-06-20
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2019-07
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Metadata Language: 
Qing: China's Multilingual Empire
Academic Project Lead: 
Julianne Simpson
Collection Code: 
Rylands