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Guyang Cave, Longmen Grottoes Baycroft, Anne

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The Guyang cave is the oldest cave at Longmen, dating from around 478 in the Northern Wei dynasty. The central image is Sakyamuni Buddha flanked by bodhisattvas. There are also numerous inscriptions and calligaphy within the cave, representing the style of the time. The video here pans from the right to center to left side of the cave's interior.

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Title
Guyang Cave, Longmen Grottoes
Alternate Title
Guyangdong
Creator
Baycroft, Anne
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2017-08-03
Description
The Guyang cave is the oldest cave at Longmen, dating from around 478 in the Northern Wei dynasty. The central image is Sakyamuni Buddha flanked by bodhisattvas. There are also numerous inscriptions and calligaphy within the cave, representing the style of the time. The video here pans from the right to center to left side of the cave's interior.
Subject
Buddhism; Longmen Grottoes; Caves; Northern Wei dynasty
Geographic Location
Longmen Caves (China); Luoyang Shi (China); 34.559808; 112.467878
Type
Still Image; Moving Image
Language
chi
Notes
Author Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Series
Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available
2019-02-14
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0376442
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/68367
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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