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The standing Bodhisattva with four attendants of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 A.D.) Zhang, Yi

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These boddhisattva and attendants statues were 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). All the figures were placed in front of a niche. The niche was decorated with two bohdi trees, gems, and flying apsaras, which represented a new Northern-Qi-Dnyasty style and the innovative carving technology of Buddhist art.

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Title
The standing Bodhisattva with four attendants of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 A.D.)
Creator
Zhang, Yi
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2018-07-18
Description
These boddhisattva and attendants statues were 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). All the figures were placed in front of a niche. The niche was decorated with two bohdi trees, gems, and flying apsaras, which represented a new Northern-Qi-Dnyasty style and the innovative carving technology of Buddhist art.
Subject
Bodhisattva statue; Buddhism; Northern Qi dynasty; Yecheng
Geographic Location
Linzhang Xian (China); Handan Shi (China); 36.3427314814815; 114.589918981481
Type
Still Image
Language
zxx
Series
Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available
2019-11-19
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0385545
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72321
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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