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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]
XI.A Paradise of Amitābha[21]
XII.Scenes from Gautama Buddha’s Life[23]
XIII.Scenes from the Buddha legend[25]
XIV.Images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas[26]
XV.Two forms of Avalokiteśvara[28]
XVI.Four forms of Avalokiteśvara[29]
XVII.Avalokiteśvara in Glory[30]
XVIII.Avalokiteśvara standing, with willow spray[31]
XIX.Two Avalokiteśvaras with the willow[32]
XX.Avalokiteśvara with flame-wreathed halo[33]
XXI.Avalokiteśvara standing[33]
XXII.Two Avalokiteśvara paintings with donors[34]
XXIII.Six-armed Avalokiteśvara with attendant Bodhisattvas[35]
XXIV.Two paper paintings of Avalokiteśvara[36]
XXV.Two paintings of Kṣitigarbha[37]
XXVI.Vaiśravaṇa’s Progress[39]
XXVII.Virūpākṣa and Mañjuśrī[40]
XXVIII.Bust of a Lokapāla[42]
XXIX.Two Dharmapālas and a Bodhisattva[43]
XXX.Side-scenes and details from a Buddhist Paradise painting[44]
XXXI.A Tibetan painting of Tārā[45]
XXXII.Paper pictures of a Bodhisattva, saint, and monk[47]
XXXIII.Paper pictures of hermit and horse-dragon[47]
XXXIV, XXXV.Embroidery picture of Śākyamuni on the Vulture Peak[48]
XXXVI.Bhaiṣajyaguru’s Paradise[50]
XXXVII.Banners with scenes from the Buddha legend[51]
XXXVIII.Buddha Tejaḥprabha and Avalokiteśvara as guide of souls[53]
XXXIX.Kṣitigarbha with the Infernal Judges[54]
XL.Kṣitigarbha as Patron of Travellers[55]
XLI.Avalokiteśvara and two other Bodhisattvas[56]
XLII.Avalokiteśvara, thousand-armed, with attendant divinities[57]
XLIII.Avalokiteśvara with Lokapāla attendants[58]
XLIV.Fragment of standing Avalokiteśvara[59]
XLV.Vaiśravaṇa crossing the ocean[59]
XLVI.Fragment with child on demon’s hand[61]
XLVII.Three Lokapāla banners[61]
XLVIII.Fragment with figure of demonic warrior[63]
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