Two pendant-niches in a pair representing a scene of the Medicine Buddha Sutra, Qianfo zhai (千佛寨)

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Two pendant-niches in a pair representing a scene of the Medicine Buddha Sutra, Qianfo zhai (千佛寨) Anderl, Christoph; Jia, Xixi

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Located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. These two niches A and B display the same scene, namely the Medicine Buddha (Ch. Yaoshi fo 藥師佛) sitting in the center, with a disciple and a bodhisattva on each side, and the Eight Legions (Ch. Babuzhong 八部眾) standing in the background. The photographs show: The two niches above the management office (from the left to the right): Niche A, B [1] [2] Overview of the location of the niches [3] Metadata created by: Xixi Jia.

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Title	Two pendant-niches in a pair representing a scene of the Medicine Buddha Sutra, Qianfo zhai (千佛寨)
Creator	Anderl, Christoph; Jia, Xixi
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-05-22
Description	Located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. These two niches A and B display the same scene, namely the Medicine Buddha (Ch. Yaoshi fo 藥師佛) sitting in the center, with a disciple and a bodhisattva on each side, and the Eight Legions (Ch. Babuzhong 八部眾) standing in the background. The photographs show: The two niches above the management office (from the left to the right): Niche A, B [1] [2] Overview of the location of the niches [3] Metadata created by: Xixi Jia.
Subject	Anyue Buddhist sites; Sichuan Buddhist art; Qianfo zhai; Buddhism; Stone carving; Medicine Buddha
Geographic Location	Sichuans Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Qianfo zhai (China); 30.10410438; 105.3119316
Type	Still Image
Language	zxx
Notes	Author Affiliations: Ghent University
Series	Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available	2023-03-24
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0428630
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84071
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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Anderl_C_et_al_Two_pendant_niches_2_2019.JPG -- 12.49MB

Anderl_C_et_al_Two_pendant_niches_3_2019.JPG -- 12.46MB

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