Kalaviṅka at Yeongamsa Temple Site (靈巖寺址), Hapcheon

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Kalaviṅka at Yeongamsa Temple Site (靈巖寺址), Hapcheon Zhang, Biao

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Kalaviṅka at Yeongamsa Temple Site (靈巖寺址), Hapcheon. The pair of stone sculptures in the form of Kalaviṅka (迦陵頻伽), a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism with a human head and a bird's torso, along with a long flowing tail, is found at the Yeongamsa Temple Site (靈巖寺址). This site is located at the southern foot of Hwangmaesan Mountain in Dunnae-ri, Gahoe-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do. The site was once home to a Buddhist temple during the Silla period 新羅 (57 BCE - 935 CE). A short stone stairway is flanked by the two stone Kalaviṅka sculptures. Image 01 displays a portion of the stone sculpture at the temple site, while Image 02 provides more details of the Kalaviṅka sculptures.

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Title	Kalaviṅka at Yeongamsa Temple Site (靈巖寺址), Hapcheon
Creator	Zhang, Biao
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2023-05-26
Description	Kalaviṅka at Yeongamsa Temple Site (靈巖寺址), Hapcheon. The pair of stone sculptures in the form of Kalaviṅka (迦陵頻伽), a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism with a human head and a bird's torso, along with a long flowing tail, is found at the Yeongamsa Temple Site (靈巖寺址). This site is located at the southern foot of Hwangmaesan Mountain in Dunnae-ri, Gahoe-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do. The site was once home to a Buddhist temple during the Silla period 新羅 (57 BCE - 935 CE). A short stone stairway is flanked by the two stone Kalaviṅka sculptures. Image 01 displays a portion of the stone sculpture at the temple site, while Image 02 provides more details of the Kalaviṅka sculptures.
Subject	Kalavinka; Buddhism; Temples; Stone sculpture
Geographic Location	Hwangmaesan (Korea); Chʻang-ni (Hapchʻŏn-gun, Korea); 35.74949; 129.47677
Type	Still Image
Language	zxx
Notes	Author Affiliation: McGill University
Series	Cluster 1.3: Market and Merit
Date Available	2024-01-04
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0438421
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87080
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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