Miraculous Image of Liangzhou

Miraculous Image of Liangzhou
Material	Silk
Size	2.4 m high, 1.6 m wide
Created	8th century AD
Present location	British Museum, London
Registration	MAS,0.1129

The Miraculous Image of Liangzhou is an 8th-century silk embroidery on hemp cloth found in the Mogao Caves in China,^[1] as part of the large deposit of various types of artefact uncovered in a sealed off library in 1907 by Sir Aurel Stein.

Originally interpreted as Sakyamuni preaching on the Vulture Peak,^[2] the embroidered scene is now thought to depict a Buddha emerging from a rocky mountain in Liangzhou. The Buddha, standing under a jewelled canopy, is flanked by the bodhisattvas Ananda (left) and Kashyapa (right). Two apsaras are depicted above, while two lions overlook male and female donor figures at the bottom.

In 2017, the British Museum published a video series^[3] detailing the conservation process of the embroidery.

• Mogao Christian painting

• Sue Brunning, Luk Yu-ping, Elisabeth R. O'Connell, Tim Williams: Silk Roads (British Museum Press, 2024)

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