Title
Diamond-Cutter Sūtra.
Coverage
[Mongolia],
Date
ca. 1920.
Description
Pechas are Tibetan texts whose oblong-shaped, loose paper leaves are housed between unattached wooden boards, stiffened paper (or some other firm material), and then wrapped within a cloth and secured with a cord. The format was influenced by the loose-leaf palm manuscripts, or pothi, of ancient India. This manuscript of the Diamond Sūtra, written in Tibetan, appears to have been made in Mongolia. It is a luxurious production, copied out in colored inks likely made from silver, gold, coral, pearl, turquoise, and lapis lazuli in keeping with Mongolian practice.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School