Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL20030553
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Reference Number:
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Chinese Crawford 459
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Parent Work Title:
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Huayan jing
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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華嚴經
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Avatamsaka Sutra
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Translated Parent Work Title:
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Flower Adornment Sutra
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Date Created:
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1572-1620
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Page/Sheet:
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Frame 10
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Image Sequence Number:
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010
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Description:
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This book—in form of a scroll—is not just a text but a prestige object: one scroll in a case, with one wooden roller. Woodblock-printed; ink on paper on linen, the paper being glued upon the linen. The text on the scroll is an excerpt of Huayan jing 華嚴經, or Avatamsaka Sutra (Flower Adornment Sutra), a foundational text of the Huayan school of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism. The sutra describes an infinite cosmos, the interdependency of all phenomena, and how to achieve Buddhahood. A thumb index runs through the scroll, with smallish characters repeating ‘華嚴經卷五’ [Flower Adornment Sutra, Chapter Five]. Written in literary Chinese, the text is one of countless Buddhist translations from Sanskrit and other languages. The Indian monk Buddhabhadra produced the first translation in 418-420 CE, about 300 years after the original was written. While this scroll’s colophon claims that it was printed during the Ming era, this does not naturally mean that this material artefact originates from the Ming. It could well be a Qing reprint of a scroll originally printed in the Ming.
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Language Code:
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chi
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Language:
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Chinese
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Subject:
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Buddhism
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Category of Material:
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Printed
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Sub-Category:
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Scrolls
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Technique Used:
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Woodcut (process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Support:
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Linen
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Style Period:
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Ming dynasty, Wanli era
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Provenance:
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Bland, Nathaniel, 1803-1865, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Li Guoying 李国英, Zhou Xiaowen 周晓⽂ and Zhang Xianrong 张宪荣 (eds), Yingguo Manchesite Daxue Yuahan Lailanzi tushuguan Zhongwen guji mu, 英國曼徹斯特⼤學約翰·賴闌茲圖書館中⽂古籍⽬錄 = Bibliography of Ancient Chinese Books Held by the John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 2 vols. (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2018), revised and expanded by Johannes S. Lotze
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2020-03-11
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2021-09
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Educational Notes:
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Qing: China's multilingual empire exhibition
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Academic Project Lead:
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Julianne Simpson
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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