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Niche 4, Qianfo zhai (千佛寨) Anderl, Christoph

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This badly-eroded niche is located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. There are seven images, including one buddha, two disciples, two bodhisattvas, and two guardian deities. Their heads are all damaged. The buddha in the middle is sitting on a lotus throne with an oval halo behind his head and a nimbus on the back. There is a canopy above the buddha image. The other statues are all standing on a lotus platform. The bodhisattva on the right of the buddha image is adorned with beautiful pieces of jewellery. The two guardian deities are holding vajras and their torsos are naked. Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.

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Title
Niche 4, Qianfo zhai (千佛寨)
Creator
Anderl, Christoph
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2019-05-22
Description
This badly-eroded niche is located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. There are seven images, including one buddha, two disciples, two bodhisattvas, and two guardian deities. Their heads are all damaged. The buddha in the middle is sitting on a lotus throne with an oval halo behind his head and a nimbus on the back. There is a canopy above the buddha image. The other statues are all standing on a lotus platform. The bodhisattva on the right of the buddha image is adorned with beautiful pieces of jewellery. The two guardian deities are holding vajras and their torsos are naked. Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.
Subject
Anyue Buddhist Site; Sichuan Buddhist Art; Qianfo zhai; Buddhism; Stone Carving
Geographic Location
Sichuans Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Qianfo zhai (China); 30.10410438; 105.3119316
Type
Still Image
Language
zxx
Notes
Author Affiliations: 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
10.14288/1.0428643
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84082
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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