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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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Yellow bands used to separate and order assemblies of figures in a twelfth-century painted manuscript cover where the central goddess Prajñapāramitā is attended by 18 figures. Painted Wood, in the collection of The British Museum, Cited by Jackson, Nepalese Legacy, Fig 4.8, 71.