Large painting on silk showing Buddha (probably Śākyamuni) preaching in a Paradise. China, Tang Dyna
Large painting on silk showing Buddha (probably Śākyamuni) preaching in a Paradise. China, Tang Dynasty, c701-750. Among the earliest and best preserved of the paintings encountered and purchased/stolen (depending on your perspective) by Aurel Stein in 1919, in the caves at Dunhuang, Gansu Province. -- source link
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