Hand-copying Lotus Sutra in Silver on Indigo Blue Paper Vol.2

This manuscript is a copy of The Lotus Sutra, one of the most important and influential Buddhist sutras, handwritten in silver on indigo paper. It contains a frontispiece drawn in gold which consists of three parts, from the right, the Shakyamuni’s sermon on the Vulture Peak, the parable of the father who rescued his son from a burning house, and the parable of the father who guided his son, now a beggar, to wisdom. It was originally made in a concertina binding format, but was converted to its current hand scroll format to make it easier to preserve.