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The stele of the Amitabha Buddha with two bodhisattvas with the date of the 2nd year of Shangyuan (上元) during the Tang dynasty (675 A.D.) Zhang, Yi

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The stele of the Amitabha Buddha with two bodhisattvas was unearthed from the pit of Beiwu Village (Beiwuzhuang 北吳莊) in Handan, Hebei Province, in 2012. It is currently preserved at Yecheng Buddhist Statues Museum (鄴城佛造像博物館). This stele was created by a donor for his ancestors and family on February 22nd, the second year of Shangyuan (上元). Although the middle name is hard to be identified, it looks like the Chinese character hong (弘), and the donor's full name could be Zhang (Hong)liang (張（弘）亮).

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Title
The stele of the Amitabha Buddha with two bodhisattvas with the date of the 2nd year of Shangyuan (上元) during the Tang dynasty (675 A.D.)
Creator
Zhang, Yi
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2018-07-18
Description
The stele of the Amitabha Buddha with two bodhisattvas was unearthed from the pit of Beiwu Village (Beiwuzhuang 北吳莊) in Handan, Hebei Province, in 2012. It is currently preserved at Yecheng Buddhist Statues Museum (鄴城佛造像博物館). This stele was created by a donor for his ancestors and family on February 22nd, the second year of Shangyuan (上元). Although the middle name is hard to be identified, it looks like the Chinese character hong (弘), and the donor's full name could be Zhang (Hong)liang (張（弘）亮).
Subject
Amitabha Buddha; Buddhism; Tang dynasty; Yecheng
Geographic Location
Linzhang Xian (China); Handan Shi (China); 36.3427314814815; 114.589918981481
Type
Still Image
Language
chi
Series
Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available
2019-11-15
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0385512
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72285
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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