Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel / Artist Unknown, Tibet
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- Accession Number
- 1959/1.158
- Title
- Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet
- Artist Nationality
- Tibetan
- Medium and Support
- red and black ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Buddhist
- Dimensions
- 5.72 cm x 17.78 cm (2 1/4 in. x 7 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- A fragment of a horizontal scroll, which would originally have been rolled up and tucked inside a Tibetan prayer wheel, with the text of a prayer printed in red and black ink.
- Subject Matter
- A fragment of a prayer scroll, that is, the text of a prayer printed in red and black ink on a horizontal strip of paper. Such texts were rolled up and placed inside a Tibetan "prayer wheel," a device that can be set spinning. By setting a prayer wheel in motion, a practitioner symbolically allows the efficacy of the prayer to spin out, as though in a centrifugal pattern, through the cosmos.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 949 x 331
- File Size
- 40 KB
- Record
- 1959/1.158
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"Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel; Artist Unknown, Tibet." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1959-sl-1.158/1959_1.158.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.