Kumtura Cave 63: Prince Mahasattva Jataka
Kumtura Cave 63: Prince Mahasattva Jataka
CHINA, Xinjiang, Aksu
This illustration is located on the south side of the barrel-vaulted ceiling in the main chamber. The image depicts Prince Mahasattva jumping from a cliff to his death in order to feed a starving tigress and her cubs. The prince is depicted with a topknot, a bare chest, a necklace, and a dhoti, in various stages of his descent into death. The now damaged sections of the illustration likely showed the tigress and cubs as they approached the body of the prince.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves R-L, page 633.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Kumtura Cave 63: Prince Mahasattva Jataka." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves R-L, vol. 6, 2016, pp. 633.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Kumtura Cave 63: Prince Mahasattva Jataka" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves R-L, 6:633.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Kumtura Cave 63: Prince Mahasattva Jataka. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves R-L (Vol. 6, pp. 633).
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