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DiaporamaSegment of a Commentary on Vajracchedika-prajnaparamita (Important Cultural Property)
43.0 x 26.0 cm
Fukuoka Art Museum
Kukai travelled to China in the early Heian period to study Esoteric Buddhism from the master Huiguo, and returned to establish the Shingon Buddhist sect in Japan. The commentary from which this fragment comes is an Esoteric Buddhist interpretation of an earlier commentary of the Diamond Sutra by the Chinese monk Ijing(635-713). When originally composed by Kukai following his return from China around 813, the full commentary was in the form of a handscroll, but the scroll was cut into sections at some point several hundred years ago. The surviving sections show annotations and erasures, indicating that this was a draft copy. Though written in the cursive
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About this artwork
- Title: Segment of a Commentary on Vajracchedika-prajnaparamita (Important Cultural Property)
- Artist: kōbō daishi
- Original dimensions: 43.0 x 26.0 cm
- Format: Panoramic
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Fukuoka Art Museum
- Color intensity: Balanced
- Perceived brightness: brilliant
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