Thousand-armed Guanyin (千手觀音), Qianfo zhai (千佛寨)

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Thousand-armed Guanyin (千手觀音), Qianfo zhai (千佛寨) Anderl, Christoph

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Located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. The relief carving inside this niche is supposed to be a statue of the Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara. The middle part of its body is severely damaged. However, given the the many arms, it can be assumed that it was originally a representation of the Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara. The photographs show: An overview of the niche, photo taken from the lower left [1]. An overview of the niche with his surroundings [2]. A close-up of the dextre part of the niche [3]. A close-up of the top part of the niche [4]. Metadata created by: Xixi Jia.

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Title	Thousand-armed Guanyin (千手觀音), 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	Located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. The relief carving inside this niche is supposed to be a statue of the Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara. The middle part of its body is severely damaged. However, given the the many arms, it can be assumed that it was originally a representation of the Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara. The photographs show: An overview of the niche, photo taken from the lower left [1]. An overview of the niche with his surroundings [2]. A close-up of the dextre part of the niche [3]. A close-up of the top part of the niche [4]. Metadata created by: Xixi Jia.
Subject	Anyue Buddhist Site; Sichuan Buddhist Art; Qianfo zhai; Buddhism; Stone Carving; Thousand Armed Guanyin
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	10.14288/1.0428651
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84092
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_Thousand_armed_Guanyin_3_2019.JPG -- 12.68MB

Anderl_C_Thousand_armed_Guanyin_4_2019.JPG -- 12.54MB

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