Image: A Sanskrit manuscript of Lotus Sutra in South Turkestan Brahmi script

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Description: This folio of the popular Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (Lotus Sutra) is written in Sanskrit in an early form of South Turkestan Brahmi script. The manuscript originally comprised more than 350 folios, each consisting of two thin layers of paper pasted together. Leaves of this same manuscript are preserved in London, Munich and Berlin. Ink on paper.
Title: A Sanskrit manuscript of Lotus Sutra in South Turkestan Brahmi script
Credit: This file has been provided by the International Dunhuang Project from its digital collections, from original file BLI1_OR82121411R1. Catalogue entry: Or.8212/1411
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