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Guanyin Bodhisattva (Guanyin pusa 觀音菩薩), niche 14, Yuanjue dong 圓覺洞 Anderl, Christoph

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Niche 14, a rectangular vault, is located east of niche 13 in Yuanjue dong 圓覺洞, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. It contains a statue of Avalokiteśvara (Ch. Guanyin 觀音) 525 cm high and standing barefoot with a slight bend to the left, atop a lotus platform [1][2]. The deity is portrayed with both an halo (Ch. touguang 頭光) and an aura (Ch. shenguang 身光). Avalokiteśvara wears a double-layer bejeweled crown, a kāṣāya (Ch. jiasha 袈裟), and a long skirt. Avalokitesvara's right hand is holding a long stalk of a lotus flower while the left hand rests on the right wrist. [3][4][5] Reference: Chengdu wenwu kaogu yanjiusuo 成都文物考古研究所, Beijing daxue Zhongguo kaogu yanjiu zhongxin 北京大學中國考古學研究中心, and Anyue xian wenwuju 安岳縣文物局, 2013: “Sichuan Anyue xian Yuanjue dong moya shike zaoxiang diaocha baogao" 四川安岳縣圓覺洞摩崖石刻造像調查報告 in Sichuan daxue bowuguan 四川大學博物館, Sichuan daxue kaoguxue xi 四川大學考古學系, and Chengdu wenwu kaogu yanjiusuo 成都文物考古研究所 (eds) Nanfang minzu kaogu 南方民族考古 vol. 9. Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, pp. 382-384. Metadata created by: Yalin Du, Sijia Li, Clara Ma, Jie Zhang.

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Title
Guanyin Bodhisattva (Guanyin pusa 觀音菩薩), niche 14, Yuanjue dong 圓覺洞
Creator
Anderl, Christoph
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2019-05-22
Description
Niche 14, a rectangular vault, is located east of niche 13 in Yuanjue dong 圓覺洞, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. It contains a statue of Avalokiteśvara (Ch. Guanyin 觀音) 525 cm high and standing barefoot with a slight bend to the left, atop a lotus platform [1][2]. The deity is portrayed with both an halo (Ch. touguang 頭光) and an aura (Ch. shenguang 身光). Avalokiteśvara wears a double-layer bejeweled crown, a kāṣāya (Ch. jiasha 袈裟), and a long skirt. Avalokitesvara's right hand is holding a long stalk of a lotus flower while the left hand rests on the right wrist. [3][4][5] Reference: Chengdu wenwu kaogu yanjiusuo 成都文物考古研究所, Beijing daxue Zhongguo kaogu yanjiu zhongxin 北京大學中國考古學研究中心, and Anyue xian wenwuju 安岳縣文物局, 2013: “Sichuan Anyue xian Yuanjue dong moya shike zaoxiang diaocha baogao" 四川安岳縣圓覺洞摩崖石刻造像調查報告 in Sichuan daxue bowuguan 四川大學博物館, Sichuan daxue kaoguxue xi 四川大學考古學系, and Chengdu wenwu kaogu yanjiusuo 成都文物考古研究所 (eds) Nanfang minzu kaogu 南方民族考古 vol. 9. Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, pp. 382-384. Metadata created by: Yalin Du, Sijia Li, Clara Ma, Jie Zhang.
Subject
Anyue Buddhist site; Sichuan Buddhist Art; Yuanjue Dong; Buddhism; Stone carving; Guanyin
Geographic Location
Sichuan Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Yuanjue dong (China); 30.090897705; 105.34489092
Type
Still Image
Language
eng; chi
Notes
Author Affiliation: Ghent University
Series
Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available
2023-03-23
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0428573
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84014
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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