“The Five Buddhas of the Diamond Realm & the Five Buddhas of the Womb Realm”

by TaizŌKai Go Butsu 金剛界五佛 KongŌKai Go Butsu, 胎藏界五佛

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Manuscript on paper, in scroll format. Ten hand-colored illus. & several smaller black-ink illus. Scroll 310 x 7000 mm. . Japan : Kamakura period, ca. 13th century . A scroll with an inventory of the Buddhas of the Maṇḍala of the Two Realms, the Diamond Realm and the Womb Realm. These two maṇḍalas are of great importance in the esoteric Buddhist sects in Japan. They flourished initially in the Heian period. The maṇḍala of the Diamond

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