[Ghost Impression of a Celestial Figure]

This page contains no printed text. Instead, it preserves a faint ghost image or bleed-through original: 透印 (touyin); a phenomenon where ink from one side of a page migrates through the paper fibers to become visible on the reverse, often occurring over centuries of pressure and humidity.

Visible here is the faint, mirror-image silhouette of the Bodhisattva Guanyin described on the previous page. The outline shows the high topknot and the flowing, ethereal robes of the figure. The presence of this impression suggests the manuscript was stored under significant pressure or in an environment that allowed the woodblock ink to permeate the paper.

The paper itself exhibits heavy foxing the characteristic brown spots or blotches seen on old paper, usually caused by fungal growth or the oxidation of iron ores within the paper pulp. These age spots are common in late imperial Chinese manuscripts due to the organic nature of the handmade paper.

The rectangular border visible in the bleed-through confirms that the original woodblock was framed with decorative vines, consistent with the religious publishing standards of the Ming and Qing dynasties.