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 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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949 x 331
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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.
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