A Prajnaparamita Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses

TIBET, CIRCA 15TH CENTURY

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A Prajnaparamita Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses
Tibet, circa 15th Century
Each sheet of 8 lines in Tibetan dbu can script using silver ink with rubrics in gold ink on both sides; the introductory leaves with protective flyleaf and a leaf with upper cover containing writing in 8 lines that is a flap below which is an ornate title in gold characters filling the entire area in one line (with another leaf attached perhaps subsequently for strength); attached to the title leaf is a silk stub once serving as an identifying tag hanging out of a library shelf; the wooden cover depicting the Five Tathagathas in recessed aureoles surrounded by scrollwork, beaded and stylized flame borders
8 1/8 x 26 in. (20.5 x 66 cm.)

拍品專文

This book contains the first three sections, probably 10,000 lines or verses, from the Perfecton of Wisdom in 100,000 verses. This is a Buddhist sutra text which has been expanded to an enormous extent by the addition of scholarly commentary and devotional exercises. The Perfection of Wisdom is the central canonical text of the Mahayana Prajnaparamita school. (See catalogue note for lot 210.) Modern scholarship considers that the text was elaborated by a series of additions to a small original core over the period from 50 to 700 AD.