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Crossing the Ocean of saṃsāra: Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, no. III 9023

Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2020-06, p.183-217

ISSN: 0080-3545 ;DOI: 10.24425/ro.2019.132998

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  • Title:
    Crossing the Ocean of saṃsāra: Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, no. III 9023
  • Author: Zin, Monika
  • Is Part Of: Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2020-06, p.183-217
  • Description: The aim of this paper is to explain the meaning of two mural fragments housed in the Central Asian Collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The two mural fragments under discussion, nos. III 9023a and III 9023b–c (Pl. 1, Fig. 1), were brought to Berlin by the 4th Turfan Expedition in the year 1914 from the Buddhist cave monasteries in Kizil in the area of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road, today’s Province Xinjiang, an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China. The murals show peculiar waterscape with persons trying to cross it; they can be compare with similar representations from the area of Kucha.
  • Language: Polish
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0080-3545
    DOI: 10.24425/ro.2019.132998
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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