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Bodhisattva Guanyin (Guanyin pusa 觀音菩薩), Wofo yuan 臥佛院 Anderl, Christoph

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Image of a bodhisattva near the head of the Reclining Buddha (Wofo 臥佛) at the Wofo yuan complex 臥佛院, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. The iconography of the crown is hard to ascertain from the photograph. Some scholars suggest that it may be Avalokiteśvara (Ch. Guanyin pusa 觀音菩薩).

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Title
Bodhisattva Guanyin (Guanyin pusa 觀音菩薩), Wofo yuan 臥佛院
Creator
Anderl, Christoph
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2019-05-22
Description
Image of a bodhisattva near the head of the Reclining Buddha (Wofo 臥佛) at the Wofo yuan complex 臥佛院, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. The iconography of the crown is hard to ascertain from the photograph. Some scholars suggest that it may be Avalokiteśvara (Ch. Guanyin pusa 觀音菩薩).
Subject
Anyue Buddhist site; Sichuan Buddhist Art; Wofo yuan; Buddhism; Stone carving; Reclining Buddha
Geographic Location
Sichuan Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Wofo yuan (China); 30.30301554; 105.3168998
Type
Still Image
Language
zxx
Notes
Author Affiliation: Ghent University
Series
Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available
2023-03-22
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0428091
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83968
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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