A Wikipedia article on Xuanzang, the seventh-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar and translator whose overland pilgrimage to India brought back the texts underlying the Yogacara school. The article carries a captioned illustration described as a fourteenth-century painting of Xuanzang from Japan's Kamakura period, the same culture and period as this Metropolitan Museum of Art scroll.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the Kamakura-period portrait tradition of Xuanzang as a subject in Japanese Buddhist painting, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming and describing an actual scroll of that culture and period. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanzang
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Xuanzang directly: "A Wikipedia article on Xuanzang, the seventh-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar and translator whose overland pilgrimage to India brought back the texts underlying the Yogacara school."
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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