Detail of reliefs, south wall, lower register, Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu dong 毗廬洞

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Detail of reliefs, south wall, lower register, 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 south cliff wall 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. These figures are vividly depicted with distinctive attributes and postures. These reliefs date from the Song dynasty (960-1279) up to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Photo [1] is an overview of the western section. Photos [2][3] show detail of reliefs with inscriptions of donors' names: - "文三元" in photo [2]; - "桑氏妙慧" and "王張氏" in photo [3]. Metadata created by Huajie Fan (May 31, 2022)

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Title	Detail of reliefs, south wall, lower register, 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 south cliff wall 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. These figures are vividly depicted with distinctive attributes and postures. These reliefs date from the Song dynasty (960-1279) up to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Photo [1] is an overview of the western section. Photos [2][3] show detail of reliefs with inscriptions of donors' names: - "文三元" in photo [2]; - "桑氏妙慧" and "王張氏" in photo [3]. Metadata created by Huajie Fan (May 31, 2022)
Subject	Anyue Buddhist sites; Sichuan Buddhist art; Pilu Cave; 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	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	10.14288/1.0428614
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84054
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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Anderl_C_Detail_reliefs_south_wall_3_2019.JPG -- 14.06MB

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