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Niche with a Thousand-armed Guanyin and six other figures, with a smaller niche located to its right, Qianfo zhai (千佛寨)

From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)

This niche is located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. It depicts seven figures (statues are numbered left to right). The only one that can be identified is a Thousand-armed Guanyin (Ch. Qianshou Guanyin 千手觀音). All the seven statues, including this latter, are missing of heads and arms. Statues 1 and 7 are seated on lotus pedestals; while the others are standing. Besides the Thousand-armed Guanyin, statues 1, 3, and 6 display a range of accessories that reflect the iconography of bodhisattvas while statues 4 and 5 wear monastic garb and are probably buddhas. However, since heads and hands have been removed or destroyed no precise identification is possible. While most of Thousand-armed Guayin's additional hands show signs of weathering, image [7] shows the lower hands holding what looks like a string of beads. Photograph [8] shows a hand holding an unblossomed lotus flower. The photographs show: Overview of the niche with a Thousand-armed Guanyin and six other figures, and a smaller niche located to its right, depicting small buddha-like figures seated on lotus pedestals [1] Close-up of the seated buddha-like figures [2] Close-up of the Thousand-armed Guanyin and the other six figures [3] Overview of the niche with the seven figures taken from the front [4] Front view of the Thousand-armed Guanyin and four figure to its right [5] Close-up of the Thousand-armed Guanyin [6] Close-up of the hands on the right side of Thousand-armed Guanyin [7] Close-up of the hands on the left side of Thousand-armed Guanyin [8] Side view of Thousand-armed Guanyin (partial) and the two figures to its right [9] Metadata created by: Alessandro Poletto

Sichuans Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Qianfo zhai (China); 30.10410438; 105.3119316

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