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.

## Description

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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.

## Conservation

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

## See also

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* Mogao Christian painting

## References

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1. ^ British Museum Collection
2. ^ Cultural Objects Name Authority
3. ^ Conserving Vulture Peak

## Bibliography

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

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