Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel / Artist Unknown, Tibet

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Accession Number
1987/1.195.13
Title
Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel
Artist Nationality
Tibetan
Object Creation Date
18th century
Style/Group/Movement
Buddhist
Inscription
Tibetan Buddhist Text; Tibetan script
Dimensions
5.4 cm x 7.6 cm (2 1/8 in. x 3 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.
Primary Keywords
buddhism
himalayan
text
vajrayana
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977 x 1473
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Record
1987/1.195.13
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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-1987-sl-1.195.13/1987_1.195.13.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.
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