A Catalogue of the Mongolian Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Ernst-Collection
Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, BOP Books 2025
CC BY 4.0 International License
https://doi.org/10.36950/kat-mon-2025.129

129

Sems can dmyal ba chen po dang po yang sos

GDC Mong L1 : 3

ET_405

Xyl., Tibetan-Mongolian biglotte, pothi, 43 : 8,4 cm, 278 fols., differing number of lines, no continuous pagination, left margin r: alternating Mongolian or Tibetan pagination, text framed in black. Numerous full-page illustrations of different hells, the outlines painted in black ink and filled in (probably later) with coloured crayons; some fols. very badly frayed and damaged, text preserved between two wooden boards; incomplete.

Description and illustration of different Buddhist hells.1