[INDOLOGY] Small dish with Ranjana inscription

[Bill Mak]

Dear McComas,
This is a typical Buddhist votive object with Sinitic nāgarī script. The eight petals: oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ (counter-clockwise) and the bīja letter hrīḥ in the center. The outer ring must be another dhāraṇī. Tony Lin has a number of works in Chinese discussing all these objects. I am happy to share the bibliography if it is of interest to you.
BM

-- 
Bill M. Mak

Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
Japan
〒606-8501 京都市左京区吉田本町
京都大学人文科学研究所

Tel:+81-75-753-6961
Fax:+81-75-753-6903

copies of my publications may be found at:
http://www.billmak.com <http://www.billmak.com/>
http://kyoto-u.academia.edu/BillMak

> On Nov 19, 2018, at 12:12 PM, McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues
> 
> I wonder if any of you multi-talented folk can help me read the inscription on this small Chinese ceramic from the Ardebil shrine?
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> McComas
> 
> 
> 
> McComas Taylor
> Associate Professor
> Reader in Sanskrit
> College of Asia and the Pacific
> The Australian National University
> WSC Website <http://www.wsc2021.com.au/>| McC Website <https://sites.google.com/site/mccomasanu/>Tel: +61 2 6125 3179
> <#24 small dish with Tibetan writing.JPG>_______________________________________________
> INDOLOGY mailing list
> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info <mailto:INDOLOGY at list.indology.info>
> indology-owner at list.indology.info <mailto:indology-owner at list.indology.info> (messages to the list's managing committee)
> http://listinfo.indology.info <http://listinfo.indology.info/> (where you can change your list options or unsubscribe)



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology/attachments/20181119/bdb5e5b5/attachment.htm>