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Baby-bringing Avalokiteśvara (Songzi Guanyin 送子觀音), Fayuan Temple (法源寺) Balkwill, Stephanie; Liu, Yifeng; Wu, Tzu-Wen; Zhang, Lusi; Liu, Yiling; Zhu, Zhaofeng

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Baby-bringing Avalokiteśvara (Songzi Guanyin 送子觀音) is located at Avalokiteśvara hall (Guanyin dian 觀音殿), Fayuan temple (Fayuan si 法源寺). Avalokiteśvara holds a baby in her arms, signifying that she will aid women in conceiving a child. The sculpture's total height is 96.5cm. The figure's height is 64cm. The baby's height is 15cm.

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Title
Baby-bringing Avalokiteśvara (Songzi Guanyin 送子觀音), 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
Baby-bringing Avalokiteśvara (Songzi Guanyin 送子觀音) is located at Avalokiteśvara hall (Guanyin dian 觀音殿), Fayuan temple (Fayuan si 法源寺). Avalokiteśvara holds a baby in her arms, signifying that she will aid women in conceiving a child. The sculpture's total height is 96.5cm. The figure's height is 64cm. The baby's height is 15cm.
Subject
Fayuan Temple; Temples; Buddhism; Guanyin
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
10.14288/1.0438680
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87257
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Postdoctoral; Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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