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Image 16: Lankavatarasutra in Tibetan with commentary in Chinese. This contains a commentary to a Buddhist sutra in Chinese in black in the usual orientation: top to bottom, right to left. So for this text, the concertina is simply a folded scroll. But the text in red contains the sutra in Tibetan, also written in its usual orientation: horizontally, left to right. 9th to 10th century
Dunhuang, Cave 17 ©The British Library, Or.8210/S.5603

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A commentary to a Buddhist sutra

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