The Stele of the Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya sutra (Dafangguangfohuangyanjing 大方廣佛華嚴經), by Lourui (婁睿) of the Northern Qi dynasty (550-577 A.D.)

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The Stele of the Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya sutra (Dafangguangfohuangyanjing 大方廣佛華嚴經), by Lourui (婁睿) of the Northern Qi dynasty (550-577 A.D.) Li, Lan

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The carving sutra of this stele was sponsored by Lourui (婁睿), the Prince of Dong'an (東安) of the Northern Qi dynasty. It was created for Lingyu (靈裕), the famous master of Dasabhumika School. This stele is 230 cm in height, 100 cm in width and 28 cm in depth, with dragon heads and a rectangle base. The inscription carved on the stele is the chapter of Pusa mingnan pin (菩薩明難品, the chapter of the bodhisattva explaining the disasters) from the Avatamsaka-sūtra (華嚴經).

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Title	The Stele of the Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya sutra (Dafangguangfohuangyanjing 大方廣佛華嚴經), by Lourui (婁睿) of the Northern Qi dynasty (550-577 A.D.)
Creator	Li, Lan
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2018-07-19
Description	The carving sutra of this stele was sponsored by Lourui (婁睿), the Prince of Dong'an (東安) of the Northern Qi dynasty. It was created for Lingyu (靈裕), the famous master of Dasabhumika School. This stele is 230 cm in height, 100 cm in width and 28 cm in depth, with dragon heads and a rectangle base. The inscription carved on the stele is the chapter of Pusa mingnan pin (菩薩明難品, the chapter of the bodhisattva explaining the disasters) from the Avatamsaka-sūtra (華嚴經).
Subject	Lingquansi Grottoes; Sūtra; Avataṃsaka-sūtra; Buddhism; Northern Qi dynasty
Geographic Location	Anyang Xian (China); Anyang Shi (China); 36.0437731481481; 114. 075850
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Series	Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available	2019-11-23
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0385843
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72380
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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