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0515 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 515 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000234
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discovery of remains of gold-leaf stuck originally in small square
patches to the left knee of the colossal image which is seen on the
extreme left of the photograph above. I could not have wished
for a better illustration of the quaint custom which Hinen-Tsiang
records of a miracle-working Buddha figure of colossal size he saw
at Pi-mo. "Those who have any disease, according to the part
affected, cover the corresponding place on the statue with gold-leaf,