Ziyunyan (紫雲巖)

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Ziyunyan (紫雲巖) Anderl, Christoph; Shen, Lien Fan; Burdorf, Suzanne; Yan, Weiguang

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Front view of the temple [1]. Entrance to the temple [2, 3]. Incense burner of the temple [4]. Altar with "Guanyin fozu 觀音佛祖", supposedly coming from 西雲寺; the caretaker of the temple showed us photograph of the sky with cloud formations, and explained to us that Guanyin arrived in the cloud-shape of a dragon. 主神為觀音佛祖，自西雲寺請來，廟公向我們展示了龍形的雲的照片，觀音在這裡顯示了神跡。[5]. Close-up of the Guanyin statue [6]. Altar with Guanyin statue [7]. Close-up of the Guanyin statue [8]. Side-view of the altar, possibly with an Arhat statue to the left, and another Guanyin statue to the right [9]. Possible Taishang laojun 太上老君 statue to the right of the main altar [10].

Item Metadata

Title	Ziyunyan (紫雲巖)
Creator	Anderl, Christoph; Shen, Lien Fan; Burdorf, Suzanne; Yan, Weiguang
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2017-06-08
Description	Front view of the temple [1]. Entrance to the temple [2, 3]. Incense burner of the temple [4]. Altar with "Guanyin fozu 觀音佛祖", supposedly coming from 西雲寺; the caretaker of the temple showed us photograph of the sky with cloud formations, and explained to us that Guanyin arrived in the cloud-shape of a dragon. 主神為觀音佛祖，自西雲寺請來，廟公向我們展示了龍形的雲的照片，觀音在這裡顯示了神跡。[5]. Close-up of the Guanyin statue [6]. Altar with Guanyin statue [7]. Close-up of the Guanyin statue [8]. Side-view of the altar, possibly with an Arhat statue to the left, and another Guanyin statue to the right [9]. Possible Taishang laojun 太上老君 statue to the right of the main altar [10].
Subject	Buddhist temple
Geographic Location	New Taipei City (Taiwan); 25.2883333; 121.5375
Type	Still Image
Language	zxx
Notes	Author Affiliations: University of Gent, University of Utah, Capital Normal University 首都师范大学
Series	Cluster 1.2: Religion and Technology
Date Available	2017-07-20
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0349004
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62373
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty; Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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