The Thousand Buddhas / Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-huang on the Western Frontier of China

by Sir Aurel Stein

[7] For an interpretation of the symbolic meaning of this representation, cf. M. Petrucci’s ‘Essai’ (Les Maṇḍalas), Serindia, Appendix E, p. 1411.

[8] See Serindia, p. 835.

[9] Cf. Serindia, p. 850 sq.

[10] See Serindia, pp. 899 sq., 984 sq., Pls. cix, cx.

[11] See Serindia pp. 890, 1082 sq., Pl. lviii, and M. Petrucci’s notes in Appendix E ibid., p. 1408 sq.

[12] Cf. Serindia, pp. 835, 890, note 38.

[13] See above, p. [17].

[14] See, e.g., Plate [xxii].

[15] Cf. Stein, Ancient Khotan, ii. Pl. lix.

[16] For details of the antiquarian evidence concerning the date of these pictures, cf. Serindia, pp. 885, 896.