Painting the Path to Perfection with a Book on the Walls: The Buddha’s Former Lives in Shalu’s Circumambulatory Passage

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The Life of Śākyamuni painted at the end of the Corridor (“Story 101”). The top section shows five scenes across two registers that proceed from left to right: crowning Maitreya in Tushita paradise, Maya’s dream, birth in the grove at Lumbini, the prophecy of the sage, training in noble arts.