Miran Stupa 5: Winged Heavenly Being
Miran Stupa 5: Winged Heavenly Being
CHINA, Xinjiang, Bayingolin
This mural fragment from Miran Stupa 5 features a heavenly being with a round face, large eyes, and open wings. The head of the figure is outlined with brown, while the eyebrows, eyelashes, and hair are painted with black lines. Red shading adds detail to the wings. A thin black border runs across the top of the image, and a semicircular line extends around the body of the figure.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 534.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Miran Stupa 5: Winged Heavenly Being." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 534.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Miran Stupa 5: Winged Heavenly Being" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:534.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Miran Stupa 5: Winged Heavenly Being. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 534).
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