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The No.6 sutra storage cave at Shijing Mountain (石經山) Baycroft, Anne

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There are all together 9 caves in the Sutra Storage Cave area of Shinjing Mountain. They were officially numbered when they were unearth in 1965, as numbering of the caves was needed to arrange rubbings of the stones.Cave No. 6 was chiselled in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The sutra slabs stored inside were carved at the Stone Lamp Nunnery in Beijing and later transported to Shijing Mountain. There are 200 slabs inside the cave of which include 13 books and 61 volumes of sutra. Also stored in the cave are Daoist scriptures carved on stone by Chen Fengbian and Wang Zhixuan, representatives of the two major sects of Daoism: Quanzhan and Zhengyi. Photo 2235 shows the stone carvings that line the cave walls. Photo 2236 shows one of four pillars carved with images of the Buddha.

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Title
The No.6 sutra storage cave at Shijing Mountain (石經山)
Creator
Baycroft, Anne
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2019-07-05
Description
There are all together 9 caves in the Sutra Storage Cave area of Shinjing Mountain. They were officially numbered when they were unearth in 1965, as numbering of the caves was needed to arrange rubbings of the stones.Cave No. 6 was chiselled in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The sutra slabs stored inside were carved at the Stone Lamp Nunnery in Beijing and later transported to Shijing Mountain. There are 200 slabs inside the cave of which include 13 books and 61 volumes of sutra. Also stored in the cave are Daoist scriptures carved on stone by Chen Fengbian and Wang Zhixuan, representatives of the two major sects of Daoism: Quanzhan and Zhengyi. Photo 2235 shows the stone carvings that line the cave walls. Photo 2236 shows one of four pillars carved with images of the Buddha.
Subject
Buddhism; Daoism; Pillar; Stone sutra; Shijing Temple; Ming dynasty
Geographic Location
Shijing Mountain (China); Fangshan Qu (Beijing, China); 39.379; 115.4540
Type
Still Image
Language
zxx
Series
Cluster 2.2: "Secondary" Producers, "Primary" Roles
Date Available
2022-12-22
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0422826
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83504
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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