Huge Stone Bowl in front of the Vairocana Hall (Pilu Dian 毗盧殿), Fayuan Temple (法源寺)

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Huge Stone Bowl in front of the Vairocana Hall (Pilu Dian 毗盧殿), Fayuan Temple (法源寺) Balkwill, Stephanie; Liu, Yifeng; Wu, Tzu-Wen; Zhang, Lusi; Liu, Yiling; Zhu, Zhaofeng

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This huge stone bowl, planted with lotus flowers, stands in front of the Vairocana Hall (Pilu Dian 毗盧殿 ) of the Fayuan Temple (Fayuan si 法源寺) in Beijing 北京. The bowl itself was made in the Ming 明 dynasty (1368-1644), but the base was made in the Yuan 元 dynasty (1279-1368). The whole sculpture has very exquisite patterns, like the wave pattern with sea god beast such as dragon, unicorn and so on. The overall height is 147cm and the pot height is 66cm. Image 01 and Image 02 shows the whole stone bowl, Image 03 to Image 07 shows the various patterns on the bowl, and Image 08 to Image 10 shows the pattern on the base and its legs.

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Title	Huge Stone Bowl in front of the Vairocana Hall (Pilu Dian 毗盧殿), 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	This huge stone bowl, planted with lotus flowers, stands in front of the Vairocana Hall (Pilu Dian 毗盧殿 ) of the Fayuan Temple (Fayuan si 法源寺) in Beijing 北京. The bowl itself was made in the Ming 明 dynasty (1368-1644), but the base was made in the Yuan 元 dynasty (1279-1368). The whole sculpture has very exquisite patterns, like the wave pattern with sea god beast such as dragon, unicorn and so on. The overall height is 147cm and the pot height is 66cm. Image 01 and Image 02 shows the whole stone bowl, Image 03 to Image 07 shows the various patterns on the bowl, and Image 08 to Image 10 shows the pattern on the base and its legs.
Subject	Stone bowl; Fayuan Temple; Temples; Buddhism
Geographic Location	Fangshan; 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	10.14288/1.0438678
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87255
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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