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[Dhārāni of Empress Shōtoku].

Accession number
PML 51237
Published
[Nara, Japan], [approximately 770]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1960.
Notes
Buddhist charm of the Empress Shōtoku, Japan, ca. 770 A.D.
Sanskrit prayer transliterated into Chinese characters.
One (text: Jīshin) of the "million paper prayers". These are the earliest known examples of block-printing on paper.
Text taken from the sūtra: Vimala suddha prabhāsa mahādharanī (Japanese: Mu-ku zhō-kwō dai dhārani kyō).
The slip is preserved with its original three-story wooden pagoda (Hyakumanto).
In a case with PML 79012.
Description
1 scroll.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr.
Classification
Department