Pagoda built in the 15th year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang Dynasty 開元十五年唐塔, Yunju Temple 雲居寺

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Pagoda built in the 15th year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang Dynasty 開元十五年唐塔, Yunju Temple 雲居寺 Balkwill, Stephanie; Liu, Yifeng; Wu, Tzu-Wen; Zhang, Lusi; Liu, Yiling; Zhu, Zhaofeng

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The pagoda was built in the 15th year of the Kaiyuan era (713-741) of the Tang Dynasty 唐 (618-907). It has a height of 4 m. The tower is stone-built. The tower is a square body with a side length of 86 cm and a height of 112 cm. The square tower has a pointed arched door on the front. Image 01 to Image 04 is the front side of the tower, the left side, the back side and the right side, Image 05 is the text on the right side, and Image 06 is the stone statue of the inside.

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Title	Pagoda built in the 15th year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang Dynasty 開元十五年唐塔, Yunju Temple 雲居寺
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	2019-07-05
Description	The pagoda was built in the 15th year of the Kaiyuan era (713-741) of the Tang Dynasty 唐 (618-907). It has a height of 4 m. The tower is stone-built. The tower is a square body with a side length of 86 cm and a height of 112 cm. The square tower has a pointed arched door on the front. Image 01 to Image 04 is the front side of the tower, the left side, the back side and the right side, Image 05 is the text on the right side, and Image 06 is the stone statue of the inside.
Subject	Pagoda; Temples; Buddhism; Tang dynasty; Yujun Temple
Geographic Location	Fangshan; Beijing (China); 39.616093; 115.779947
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
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	10.14288/1.0438684
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87261
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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