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North side of the Chaoyang South Pagoda (朝阳南塔 北面) Van Cutsem, Laurent

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Chaoyang South Pagoda (朝阳南塔) is a 42.6-meter high stone pagoda made of one story and 13-story stacked eaves (密檐). It was named the South Pagoda because it is to the south of the Chaoyang North Pagoda (朝阳北塔). Similar to the North Pagoda, the South Pagoda was reconstructed in Liao Dynasty (辽代, 907-1125), but the exact time is not yet determined. In 2004, an underground relic crypt was found 50 meters away from the base of the South Pagoda. The relic crypt was interred in 984 but it is unclear how the crypt was related to the pagoda. Not much iconography was left on the four sides of the pagoda, but the holes left on them now became the lovely houses of swallows. On the north side of the pagoda, there are two cartouches to the upper left and right with inscriptions "曲女城邊寶積塔" (qunv chengbian baoji ta" and "耆堵崛山般若塔" (qidu jueshan banruo ta).

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Title
North side of the Chaoyang South Pagoda (朝阳南塔 北面)
Creator
Van Cutsem, Laurent
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2019-07-10
Description
Chaoyang South Pagoda (朝阳南塔) is a 42.6-meter high stone pagoda made of one story and 13-story stacked eaves (密檐). It was named the South Pagoda because it is to the south of the Chaoyang North Pagoda (朝阳北塔). Similar to the North Pagoda, the South Pagoda was reconstructed in Liao Dynasty (辽代, 907-1125), but the exact time is not yet determined. In 2004, an underground relic crypt was found 50 meters away from the base of the South Pagoda. The relic crypt was interred in 984 but it is unclear how the crypt was related to the pagoda. Not much iconography was left on the four sides of the pagoda, but the holes left on them now became the lovely houses of swallows. On the north side of the pagoda, there are two cartouches to the upper left and right with inscriptions "曲女城邊寶積塔" (qunv chengbian baoji ta" and "耆堵崛山般若塔" (qidu jueshan banruo ta).
Subject
Buddhism; Brick pagoda; Eight pagodas; Liao dynasty; Inscription; Engraving; Relic crypt; Stacked eaves
Geographic Location
Liaoning Sheng (China); Chaoyang (Liaoning Sheng, China); 41.3422; 120.2715
Type
Still Image
Language
chi
Series
Cluster 2.2: "Secondary" Producers, "Primary" Roles
Date Available
2020-09-22
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0394481
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/76138
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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