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A KOREAN SUTRA, THE DAEBANGGWANG BULHWAEOM
GYEONG (FLOWER-GARLAND SUTRA) A partial copy of the original version of this sutra, with the same date
Joseon dynasty (1392-1897) or Modern Period, 18th/20th century of 1389, is preserved in the collection of Dongguk University Museum
Comprising 11 folding pages, gold, silver, and colors on darkened paper, Collection; for a transliteration of the final page, see Gwon, Goryeo Sutras,
bearing part of the text of the Daebanggwang Bulhwaeom Gyeong Seoul, Mijinsa, 1986, p.700 and for a reproduction of one page, see 如是
(Avatamsaka or Flower Garland Sutra), the first and last pages with floral 我聞, Dongguk University Museum 2016, p.10, cat. no.01. It is possible
decorations and architectural cartouches, the second and third pages with that the present lot is a copy of a similar sutra made for liturgical purposes,
an illustration of a Buddhist triad seated before a temple and surrounded with the silver gridlines (for which no parallel has so far been found) giving
by numerous lesser deities; the carefully inscribed Chinese text inscribed instructions for the correct recitation of the text.
in gold within a double gold border around each page, with extensive grid-
like graphic interpolations in silver, the final page bearing a Chinese date
Hongwu 22, equivalent to 1389
9 3/4 x 40 1/2in (24.7 x 103cm)
$5,000 - 7,000
Provenance
Francesco Rausi, Italian Ambassador to Korea, 2002-2006

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