Inscriptions in cave of the Peacock King's (Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王), Kongque dong 孔雀洞

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Inscriptions in cave of the Peacock King's (Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王), Kongque dong 孔雀洞 Anderl, Christoph

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These photographs show the inscription found in the niche of the Peacock King (Ch. Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王) in Kongque dong 孔雀洞, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. The peacock king is a female bodhisattva featured in the Peacock King Sutra (Ch. Kongquewang zhou jing 孔雀王咒經, Skt. Mahāmayūrī-vidyarājñī-sūtra) and the Book of the Peacock Spell (Ch. Fomu dakongque mingwang jing 佛母大孔雀明王經, Skt. Āryam-aha-vidyarājñī-sūtra). The Peacock Sutra is an early work of Buddhist magic, derived from the peacock-protecting devotion found in the Theravādin ātānāṭiya-suttanta; the third and most widely propagated text of the Pañcarakṣā corpus. The earliest and shortest Chinese translations, which appeared in the 4th century CE, explain that the great Peacock mantra has long been used by the sages for self-protection. Metadata created by: Veerle Vantomme, Violetta Maes, Junxi Sun, Changmeng Wan, Chiung-Ju Huang, and Sinae Kim.

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Title	Inscriptions in cave of the Peacock King's (Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王), Kongque dong 孔雀洞
Creator	Anderl, Christoph
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-05-23
Description	These photographs show the inscription found in the niche of the Peacock King (Ch. Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王) in Kongque dong 孔雀洞, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. The peacock king is a female bodhisattva featured in the Peacock King Sutra (Ch. Kongquewang zhou jing 孔雀王咒經, Skt. Mahāmayūrī-vidyarājñī-sūtra) and the Book of the Peacock Spell (Ch. Fomu dakongque mingwang jing 佛母大孔雀明王經, Skt. Āryam-aha-vidyarājñī-sūtra). The Peacock Sutra is an early work of Buddhist magic, derived from the peacock-protecting devotion found in the Theravādin ātānāṭiya-suttanta; the third and most widely propagated text of the Pañcarakṣā corpus. The earliest and shortest Chinese translations, which appeared in the 4th century CE, explain that the great Peacock mantra has long been used by the sages for self-protection. Metadata created by: Veerle Vantomme, Violetta Maes, Junxi Sun, Changmeng Wan, Chiung-Ju Huang, and Sinae Kim.
Subject	Anyue Buddhist Site; Sichuan Buddhist Art; Kongque Cave; Peacock King; Buddhism; Stone inscriptions
Geographic Location	Sichuan Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Yuanjue dong (China); 29.8635436; 105.6553262
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliation: Ghent University
Series	Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available	2023-03-21
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0428058
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83942
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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