‘One of these priestly garments was the robe, which our Sages say atoned for lashon ha’ra: ‘Said Hakadosh-Baruch-Hu: let the thing which makes a sound, atone for the misdeed of the voice.’ ...

This example of imperial embroidery is one of the earliest surviving Chinese Buddhist robes (kasaya) in the West. Depicting 991 Buddhas, each slightly different, it is constructed out of patches in ...