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

Two examples of the decorated vertical band painted with floral scrolling patterns emerging from vases that divide each section of ten stories from the next. Image at left occurs after story ten, image at right occurs after story twenty. These continuous scrolling designs interrupt both upper and lower registers, making the divisions of sets of ten stories clear.