Two standing figures wearing monastic garments, Qianfo zhai (千佛寨)

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Two standing figures wearing monastic garments, Qianfo zhai (千佛寨) Anderl, Christoph

Description

This niche is located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. It depicts two standing figures. Because the niche is located in a high place, it is a bit worn but still intact and the statues retain their heads. The two figures are in monastic garb and could be buddhas, but any mudras are no longer identifiable. The photograph show: Overview of area: Thousand-armed Guayin on the left, two standing figures in the middle, and niche 62 on the right [1] Close-up of two standing figures [2] Close-up of two standing figures [3] Metadata created by: Alessandro Poletto

Item Metadata

Title	Two standing figures wearing monastic garments, 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 niche is located in Qianfo zhai 千佛寨, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. It depicts two standing figures. Because the niche is located in a high place, it is a bit worn but still intact and the statues retain their heads. The two figures are in monastic garb and could be buddhas, but any mudras are no longer identifiable. The photograph show: Overview of area: Thousand-armed Guayin on the left, two standing figures in the middle, and niche 62 on the right [1] Close-up of two standing figures [2] Close-up of two standing figures [3] Metadata created by: Alessandro Poletto
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	10.14288/1.0428652
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84093
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_Two_standing_figures_1_2019.JPG -- 12.68MB

Anderl_C_Two_standing_figures_2_2019.JPG -- 12.98MB

Anderl_C_Two_standing_figures_3_2019.JPG -- 13.34MB

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