Close-up of reliefs, east wall of Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu dong 毗廬洞

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Close-up of reliefs, east wall of Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu dong 毗廬洞 Anderl, Christoph

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Rows of Buddha-like figures are carved in relief on the lower register of the east cliff wall in in the Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu cave (Pilu dong 毗盧洞), Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. Whereas the east wall's reliefs are not often flanked by names of the donors, the figures are depicted very vividly with more attributes and iconographic elements than those located on the west wall. Photos [1] to [4] and [9] to [11] show an overview of the east wall reliefs. Photos [5] to [8] and [12] to [19] displays a selections of detailed reliefs. Metadata created by Huajie Fan (May 31, 2022)

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Title	Close-up of reliefs, east wall of Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), 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	Rows of Buddha-like figures are carved in relief on the lower register of the east cliff wall in in the Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu cave (Pilu dong 毗盧洞), Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. Whereas the east wall's reliefs are not often flanked by names of the donors, the figures are depicted very vividly with more attributes and iconographic elements than those located on the west wall. Photos [1] to [4] and [9] to [11] show an overview of the east wall reliefs. Photos [5] to [8] and [12] to [19] displays a selections of detailed reliefs. Metadata created by Huajie Fan (May 31, 2022)
Subject	Anyue Buddhist sites; Sichuan Buddhist art; Pilu Dong; Buddhism; Stone Carving; Thousand Buddhas Cave; Donors
Geographic Location	Sichuan Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Yuanjue dong (China); 29.929163; 105.630846
Type	Still Image
Language	zxx
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	10.14288/1.0428613
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84053
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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