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Inscription in niche 19, Yuanjue dong 圓覺洞 Anderl, Christoph

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This photo shows an inscription that reads fushou 福壽 (good fortune and longevity) on the eastern end of the south face of the cliff in Yuanjue dong 圓覺洞, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. According to the modern explanatory inscription next to it, this is a reproduction of Chen Tuan 陳摶's calligraphy in Da e shan 大峨山. In the reign of Daoguang 道光 (1820-1850), the county magistrate saw the incription in Da E Shan and could not forget about it, so he had it copied and transcribed here. Reference: Hu Wenhe 胡文和 and Hu Wencheng 胡文成, 2015: Bashu fojiao diaoke yishushi 巴蜀佛教雕刻藝術史. Chengdu: Bashu shu she. Metadata created by: Yalin Du, Sijia Li, Clara Ma, Jie Zhang.

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Title
Inscription in niche 19, 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
This photo shows an inscription that reads fushou 福壽 (good fortune and longevity) on the eastern end of the south face of the cliff in Yuanjue dong 圓覺洞, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. According to the modern explanatory inscription next to it, this is a reproduction of Chen Tuan 陳摶's calligraphy in Da e shan 大峨山. In the reign of Daoguang 道光 (1820-1850), the county magistrate saw the incription in Da E Shan and could not forget about it, so he had it copied and transcribed here. Reference: Hu Wenhe 胡文和 and Hu Wencheng 胡文成, 2015: Bashu fojiao diaoke yishushi 巴蜀佛教雕刻藝術史. Chengdu: Bashu shu she. Metadata created by: Yalin Du, Sijia Li, Clara Ma, Jie Zhang.
Subject
Anyue Buddhist sites; Sichuan Buddhist art; Yuanjue Cave; Buddhism; Stone carving; Stone inscriptions
Geographic Location
Sichuan Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Yuanjue dong (China); 30.090897705; 105.3448909
Type
Still Image
Language
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
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0428576
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84017
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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