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"title": "Seven Leaves from a Manuscript of the Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)",
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"description": "Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation \u2013 November 2016-April 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2016-April 10, 2017). [only the following leaves: 1955.49.1.a, 1955.49.2.a, 1955.49.3.a, 1955.49.4.a, and 1955.49.6.a]",
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"did_you_know": "Russian artist Svyatoslav Roerich (1904\u20131993) collected 144 pages of this manuscript in India.",
"description": "These pages come from a long horizontal book of 355 palm leaves, now dispersed among many collections. Featuring the pilgrim Sudhana on his quest to reach enlightenment, the text was especially influential in the spread of Buddhism to East Asia. These leaves are from the sole surviving illustrated manuscript of this text in its original language of Sanskrit.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 296",
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"citation": "Mace, Sonya Rhie. \u201cClearing the Course: Folio 348 of the Nepalese Ga\u1e47\u1e0davy\u016bha-s\u016btra in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d Religions 2020, 11(4), 183.",
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