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Brick inscribed with the Sutra on Dependent Origination
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Description
One of several inscribed bricks discovered in 1896, it is incised with Sanskrit text in the Gupta script. This Buddhist Sutra examines the twelve links in the chain of causation from which all suffering arises. When these causes are removed, suffering also will disappear.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › east India › Bihar › Gorakhpur district › Gopalpur (place of creation)
- Date
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late 5th century - early 6th century AD
Gupta Period (AD 320 - 600)
- Material and technique
- terracotta, inscribed
- Dimensions
- 12 x 29 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Hoernle, 1923.
- Accession no.
- EAX.404
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Further reading
Zwalf, W., Buddhism: Art and Faith (London: British Museum Publications, 1985), no. 34 on p. 44, illus. p. 44 fig. 34
Ahuja, Naman, ‘Early Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum - Catalogue in progress’, 2016, no. 121.3
Location
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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