Monumental plaques, Mingshan si (茗山寺)

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Monumental plaques, Mingshan si (茗山寺) Anderl, Christoph

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These monumental plaques are located in Mingshan Temple (茗山寺), situated in Dingxin Town (頂新鄉), Anyue County (安岳縣), Ziyang City (資陽巿), Sichuan. The site contains twelve rock carving niches, mostly dating from the late Northern Song Dynasty 北宋 (960–1127) to the early Southern Song Dynasty 南宋 (1127–1279). The four monumental plaques record the names of donors who sponsored the renovation expenses of the temple. Descriptions of the photos: Overview of the monumental plaques [Image 01]. Close-up of the plaque in the front [Image 02, Image 03, Image 04, Image 05]. Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.

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Title	Monumental plaques, Mingshan si (茗山寺)
Creator	Anderl, Christoph
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-05-23
Description	These monumental plaques are located in Mingshan Temple (茗山寺), situated in Dingxin Town (頂新鄉), Anyue County (安岳縣), Ziyang City (資陽巿), Sichuan. The site contains twelve rock carving niches, mostly dating from the late Northern Song Dynasty 北宋 (960–1127) to the early Southern Song Dynasty 南宋 (1127–1279). The four monumental plaques record the names of donors who sponsored the renovation expenses of the temple. Descriptions of the photos: Overview of the monumental plaques [Image 01]. Close-up of the plaque in the front [Image 02, Image 03, Image 04, Image 05]. Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.
Subject	Anyue Buddhist sites; Yuanjue Cave; Buddhist art; Rock carving; Donors; Plaque
Geographic Location	Anyue Xian (China); Sichuan Sheng (China); 30.06192; 105.56822
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliation: Ghent University
Series	Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available	2024-01-09
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0438581
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87163
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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