China: The bodhisattva Manjusri shown riding a lion. Hanging scroll painting, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, 8th-9th century. Manjusri is a bodhisattva associated with transcendent wisdom in Mahayana Buddhism. Together with Shakyamuni Buddha and fellow bodhisattva Samantabhdra he forms the Shakyamuni trinity in Buddhism.

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