China: 'Guanyin of the Water Moon'. Hanging scroll painting, Northern Song Dynasty, Dunhuang, 968 CE. This Buddhist silk painting depicts the bodhisattva of compassion and was among the first recovered from the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang (present-day Gansu Province) in the early 20th century.

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