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The Xi Xia Legacy in Sino-Tibetan Art of the Yuan Dynasty

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Fig 22.
On the left:
Top – Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, detail from a Samantabhadra painting,
12-13th century, Khara Khoto, Xi Xia Empire,
painting on silk,
97.5 x 59.0 cm.
the State Hermitage Museum, Russia (after Samosyuk, 2006: fig. 30).

Bottom – Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, detail from a Buddha Vajrasana painting
12-13th century, Khara Khoto, Xi Xia Empire
painting on cloth
80 x 52.5 cm.
the State Hermitage Museum, Russia (after Samosyuk, 2006: fig. 71).

In the middle:
Top -– Buddha, detail of fig. 20.
Bottom – Monk, detail of fig.20.


On the right:
Top – Bodhisattva, detail from an Amitabha painting
13th century, Nepalese work in Tibet
distemper on cloth
height 41 cm.
the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA (after Kossak, 1998: fig.36a).

Bottom – Bodhisattva, detail from a painted book cover
13th century, Nepal
National Collections, Kathmandu, Nepal (after Casey, 2014: fig.16).