Title: Illustrated Frontispiece to the Sutra of Enlightenment through the Accumulation of Merit and Virtue, the So-called Jingoji Sutra
Object type: Handscroll
Date: ca. 1150–85
Culture: Japan
Period: late Heian period (ca. 900–1185)
Medium: Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper
Dimensions: 10 3/16 in. x 27 ft. 6 9/16 in. (25.8 x 839.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Buddhism, term: Bodhisattvas, term: Buddha