An almost square painted wooden panel depicting the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, Sino-Tibetan art, probably 18th–19th century

An almost square painted wooden panel depicting the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, Sino-Tibetan art, probably 18th–19th century Seated in dhyānāsana on a lotus-shaped throne, his right hand raised, holding the flaming sword—a characteristic attribute of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, whose blade symbolizes the ability to cut through ignorance and delusions; with his left hand, he holds the stem of a blooming lotus emerging from his side and bearing the Prajñāpāramitā sutra, another traditional a

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