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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION

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ANONYMOUS (QING DYNASTY)

Rubbing of “Prajnaparamitahridaya”

(The Heart of the Perfection of T
ranscendent Wisdom)

Dated thirteenth year of the Yongzheng
reign (1735)
Inscribed and signed by Prince He (1712-1765),
with one seal He qin wang bao
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, tielimu scroll ends
56Ω x 30√ in. (143.5 x 78.5 cm.)

$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE

Baron Alexander von Sta‘l-Holstein
(1877-1937) Collection.

Baron Alexander von Sta‘l-Holstein (1877-
1937) was an early Western scholar of Sanskrit,
Tibetan, and Chinese languages, who contributed
to the translation of several important Buddhist
texts. In the 1920s and 30s, he was a professor of
Sanskrit, Tibetan and History of Indian Religions
at Peking University in Beijing, and in 1928
was a visiting professor at Harvard, helping the
Harvard-Yenching Institute to collect important
books. A selection of the illustrated literature von
Sta‘l-Holstein brought with him from Beijing
to Harvard were compiled by Walter Eugene
Clark to form the seminal 1937 Two Lamaistic
Pantheons, one of the earliest Western references
of Qing-dynasty Buddhist iconography.

清 般若波羅蜜多心經烏金拓本 紙本 立軸

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