Sutra Cover

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white image of a rectangular sutra cover. The cover is dark-colored with a light-colored vertical rectangle in the center. The light rectangle has a border and contains 5 vertical lines of Asian characters. Beneath them is a small square containing a circle with another character inside. The dark background is covered in a repeating white pattern of various shapes, including animals, plants, and geometric designs. The image is bordered by a thin black line.