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A grayscale painted illustration in an old printed style showing a seated teaching scene in a mountain setting. Two central figures sit cross-legged on a mat, one with a long beard and bare upper body wearing a sacred thread, the other seated beside him with a necklace. A ring of seated disciples in turbans and draped garments surrounds them, and a shaft of light descends from above toward the bearded teacher. Rows of listeners with their backs to the viewer sit in the foreground beside pots. In the upper left a multi-armed deity figure sits on a throne under a halo-like arch, and at lower right a four-armed figure holding a lamp and an object sits on a mat with a halo. The sky has concentric arcs and rolling mountains behind.

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