大般若波羅蜜多経 巻四十 (Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra Vol. 40)

A fragment of a hand-copied Buddhist sutra scroll, known as the Daihannya Haramittakyo, is shown here on paper. It displays severe degradation and significant loss of physical material.

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The nature of all phenomena original: "諸法空相" is such that they neither arise nor cease, are neither defiled nor pure, and neither increase nor decrease.

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