Miran Stupa 5: Prince Sudana Jataka
Miran Stupa 5: Prince Sudana Jataka
CHINA, Xinjiang, Bayingolin
These mural fragments are painted with an image of a male figure with lidded eyes and a mustache. Based on a photograph taken at the site by Aurel Stein, the black area beside the head of the figure is thought to be an elephant’s trunk. This suggests that the mural illustrated how the Buddha, in one of his past lives as Prince Sudana, gave away his two children, wife, and elephant. In the photograph taken by Stein, the name of the artist is written in Gandharan script next to the elephant’s foot.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 534.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Miran Stupa 5: Prince Sudana Jataka." 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: Prince Sudana Jataka" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:534.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Miran Stupa 5: Prince Sudana Jataka. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 534).
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