Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by subject type]

Anotations

Scope note:

Visual compositions incorporating content from a particular Buddhist text, usually taken from descriptions in sutras having to do with transformative experiences. Examples include birth in a Buddhist paradise, the intervention of bodhisattvas in human affairs, and images of hell. These are ritual works, not only illustrative.