Top wall of Liu Benzun tableau (Liu Benzun shilian ku 柳本尊十煉窟), Pilu dong 毗廬洞

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Top wall of Liu Benzun tableau (Liu Benzun shilian ku 柳本尊十煉窟), Pilu dong 毗廬洞 Anderl, Christoph

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The top layer of Liu Benzun tableau (Liu Benzun shilian ku 柳本尊十煉窟) in Pilu cave (Pilu dong 毗盧洞), Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. Photo [1] shows five nuddha statues located in round niches with inscriptions at the left and right. Photo [2][3][4][5][6] are detailed pictures of these five statues. There is no consensus among scholars concerning the identity of these five buddhas. Some suggest they are five Dhyāni-buddhas (Ch. wuzhi rulai 五智如來) although the mudras depicted here are different from the classic representation of them. (Information based on personal communication with Dr. Yang Xiaodong 杨晓东. May 28, 2022.) Metadata created by Longyu Zhang (May 31, 2022).

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Title	Top wall of Liu Benzun tableau (Liu Benzun shilian ku 柳本尊十煉窟), Pilu dong 毗廬洞
Creator	Anderl, Christoph
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-05-23
Description	The top layer of Liu Benzun tableau (Liu Benzun shilian ku 柳本尊十煉窟) in Pilu cave (Pilu dong 毗盧洞), Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. Photo [1] shows five nuddha statues located in round niches with inscriptions at the left and right. Photo [2][3][4][5][6] are detailed pictures of these five statues. There is no consensus among scholars concerning the identity of these five buddhas. Some suggest they are five Dhyāni-buddhas (Ch. wuzhi rulai 五智如來) although the mudras depicted here are different from the classic representation of them. (Information based on personal communication with Dr. Yang Xiaodong 杨晓东. May 28, 2022.) Metadata created by Longyu Zhang (May 31, 2022).
Subject	Anyue Buddhist sites; Sichuan Buddhist art; Pilu Cave; Buddhism; Stone carving; Liu Benzun
Geographic Location	Sichuan Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Yuanjue dong (China); 29.929444; 105.630976
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliation: Ghent University
Series	Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available	2023-03-24
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0428599
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84039
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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