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Guardian deities, Niche 12, Mingshan si (茗山寺) Anderl, Christoph; Yu, Sau Ling Wendy

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Niche 12 is 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 niche depicts eleven standing guardian deities, most are severely eroded. They wear warrior’s attire, holding different objects (from right to left): (1) a bird, (2) a fan, (3) a sabre, (4) a snake, (5) a sword, (6) a long rod, (7) the right hand is damaged while the left hand touches an unidentified object on the ground, (8) both hands tear open a cloth showing a face inside, (9) the left hand appears to be grasping something, (10) both hands are damaged and (11) both arms are damaged. The eleventh deity, which looks like a heavenly king, has an auspicious cloud motif above his head, decorated with a seated Buddha image. Small circular shrines with seated Buddha images are depicted above the other guardian deities. Descriptions of the photos: Key to the images [Image 01, Image 02]. Overview of the niche [Image 03, Image 04, Image 05, Image 06, Image 07]. Close-up of the eleventh deity [Image 08, Image 09, Image 10, Image 11, Image 12, Image 13]. Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.

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Title
Guardian deities, Niche 12, Mingshan si (茗山寺)
Creator
Anderl, Christoph; Yu, Sau Ling Wendy
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2019-05-23
Description
Niche 12 is 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 niche depicts eleven standing guardian deities, most are severely eroded. They wear warrior’s attire, holding different objects (from right to left): (1) a bird, (2) a fan, (3) a sabre, (4) a snake, (5) a sword, (6) a long rod, (7) the right hand is damaged while the left hand touches an unidentified object on the ground, (8) both hands tear open a cloth showing a face inside, (9) the left hand appears to be grasping something, (10) both hands are damaged and (11) both arms are damaged. The eleventh deity, which looks like a heavenly king, has an auspicious cloud motif above his head, decorated with a seated Buddha image. Small circular shrines with seated Buddha images are depicted above the other guardian deities. Descriptions of the photos: Key to the images [Image 01, Image 02]. Overview of the niche [Image 03, Image 04, Image 05, Image 06, Image 07]. Close-up of the eleventh deity [Image 08, Image 09, Image 10, Image 11, Image 12, Image 13]. Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.
Subject
Anyue Buddhist sites; Yuanjue Cave; Buddhist art; Rock carving; Buddha; Guardian deity; Heavenly king
Geographic Location
Anyue (China); Sichuan (China); 30.06192; 105.56822
Type
Still Image
Language
zxx
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
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Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0438589
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87171
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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