Buddha Figure in Pavilion of Expressing Sympathy for Loyal Officials (Minzhong ge 憫忠閣), Fayuan Temple (法源寺)

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Buddha Figure in Pavilion of Expressing Sympathy for Loyal Officials (Minzhong ge 憫忠閣), Fayuan Temple (法源寺) Balkwill, Stephanie; Liu, Yifeng; Wu, Tzu-Wen; Zhang, Lusi; Liu, Yiling; Zhu, Zhaofeng

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The buddha figure is the first statue on left side inside the main entrance of the Pavilion of Expressing Sympathy for Loyal Officials (Minzhong ge 憫忠閣) of the Fayuan Temple (Fayuan si 法源寺) in Beijing 北京. The introduction states that it was built in the ninth year of Yonghui 永徽 in the Tang 唐 Dynasty (650). The full height of the statue is 76cm, the lotus pedestal is 15cm high, the base column is 28cm high and 18cm wide. Image 01 shows the whole statue, Image 02 shows the facial features of the Buddha, and Image 03 to 05 show different sides of the base column.

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Title	Buddha Figure in Pavilion of Expressing Sympathy for Loyal Officials (Minzhong ge 憫忠閣), Fayuan Temple (法源寺)
Creator	Balkwill, Stephanie; Liu, Yifeng; Wu, Tzu-Wen; Zhang, Lusi; Liu, Yiling; Zhu, Zhaofeng
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-07-03
Description	The buddha figure is the first statue on left side inside the main entrance of the Pavilion of Expressing Sympathy for Loyal Officials (Minzhong ge 憫忠閣) of the Fayuan Temple (Fayuan si 法源寺) in Beijing 北京. The introduction states that it was built in the ninth year of Yonghui 永徽 in the Tang 唐 Dynasty (650). The full height of the statue is 76cm, the lotus pedestal is 15cm high, the base column is 28cm high and 18cm wide. Image 01 shows the whole statue, Image 02 shows the facial features of the Buddha, and Image 03 to 05 show different sides of the base column.
Subject	Fayuan Temple; Temples; Buddhism; Tang dynasty
Geographic Location	Fangshan (China); Beijing (China); 39.88518875; 116.3701096
Type	Still Image
Language	zxx
Notes	Author Affiliations: University of Winnipeg, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Renmin University of China
Series	Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available	2024-01-12
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0438677
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87254
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty; Postdoctoral; Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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