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Buddhist inscription of a passage from the chapter Sagely Practice (Shengxing) of the Mahāparinirvana-Sūtra (大般涅槃經·聖行品), dated the fisrt year of Tianbao (天保) of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550 A.D.) Li, Lan

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Excerpts from the chapter Sagely Practice (Shengxing ping 聖行品) in Mahāparinirvana-Sūtra (Dabanniepan jing 大般涅槃經) carved on the left side of a the hymn the Avatamsaka Sūtra (Huayan jing 華嚴經). It was written in lishu (隶书), an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy.

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Buddhist inscription of a passage from the chapter Sagely Practice (Shengxing) of the Mahāparinirvana-Sūtra (大般涅槃經·聖行品), dated the fisrt year of Tianbao (天保) of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550 A.D.)
Creator
Li, Lan
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2018-07-19
Description
Excerpts from the chapter Sagely Practice (Shengxing ping 聖行品) in Mahāparinirvana-Sūtra (Dabanniepan jing 大般涅槃經) carved on the left side of a the hymn the Avatamsaka Sūtra (Huayan jing 華嚴經). It was written in lishu (隶书), an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy.
Subject
Xiaonanhai Grottoes; Sūtra; Buddhism; Northern Qi dynasty
Geographic Location
Anyang Xian (China); Anyang Shi (China); 36.0389467592593; 114.106111111111
Type
Still Image
Language
chi
Series
Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available
2019-11-19
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0385556
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72329
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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