Religious scripture (sutra)
Tibet, ca. 1875–1900
Collected by Helen Conrad Mitchell in Darjeeling, India,
or Katmandu, Nepal, 1965, acc. 1967.
9–6954
This Aryakaranavyuha sutra is a 101-page manuscript, printed on Chinese paper. Dealing with mercy and compassion, it was the first of the Buddhist texts to be translated into Tibetan, ca. 641–650 A.D., just before the religion spread to Tibet. This example was probably commissioned by someone of wealth and high rank, as the materials had to supplied to the monk who made it.
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