Transcriber’s Note

The cover image is from the title page of the folio size book containing the image plates. Blemishes have been removed. See other notes at the end of the text.

THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS

ANCIENT BUDDHIST PAINTINGS FROM
THE CAVE-TEMPLES OF TUN-HUANG
ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER OF CHINA

RECOVERED AND DESCRIBED BY

AUREL STEIN, K.C.I.E.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY

LAURENCE BINYON

PUBLISHED UNDER THE ORDERS OF
H.M. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA
AND WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

TEXT

LONDON
BERNARD QUARITCH, Ltd.

1921

PRINTED IN ENGLAND
AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY FREDERICK HALL

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TO THE MEMORY OF
RAPHAEL PETRUCCI
TO WHOSE DEVOTION TO FAR-EASTERN ART
THE STUDY OF THESE PAINTINGS OWES MOST
THIS ALBUM WHICH HE HAD HELPED TO PLAN
IS DEDICATED
IN ADMIRATION, AFFECTION, AND SORROW

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		PAGE
PREFACE		ix
THE TUN-HUANG PAINTINGS AND THEIR PLACE IN BUDDHIST ART An Introductory Essay by Laurence Binyon		1–10
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF PICTURES by Sir Aurel Stein		11–63
I, II.	The Paradise of Bhaiṣajyaguru	11
III.	A celestial assemblage	13
IV, V.	Processions of Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra	14
VI.	Details from a painting of a Buddhist Heaven	15
VII.	The Paradise of Śākyamuni	16
VIII.	Amitābha’s Paradise	18
IX.	Legendary scenes from a painting of Maitreya’s Paradise	19
X.	Amitābha with attendants	20
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