Stele in the Offering Tea Garden House (Shicha ting 施茶亭) 1

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Stele in the Offering Tea Garden House (Shicha ting 施茶亭) 1 Balkwill, Stephanie; Liu, Yifeng; Wu, Tzu-Wen; Zhang, Lusi; Liu, Yiling; Zhu, Zhaofeng

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This is one of the two steles in the Offering Tea Garden House (Shicha ting 施茶亭), which was built in the Ming dynasty 明 (1368-1644). Body measurements: width 70cm, height 170cm, depth 16.5cm. The frontside of it records the story of the garden house's constrcution (Image 01 to Image 03). The backside of it records the names of those who offered money (Gongdezhu 功德主) for the construction of the garden house (Image 04 and Image 05). Image 06 shows the plaque of the garden house, and the handwriting belongs to Puchu Zhao 趙朴初. The garden house is located half way up Fangshan 房山. It is actually not a simple garden house 亭 as its name shows, but includes three houses.

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Title	Stele in the Offering Tea Garden House (Shicha ting 施茶亭) 1
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	This is one of the two steles in the Offering Tea Garden House (Shicha ting 施茶亭), which was built in the Ming dynasty 明 (1368-1644). Body measurements: width 70cm, height 170cm, depth 16.5cm. The frontside of it records the story of the garden house's constrcution (Image 01 to Image 03). The backside of it records the names of those who offered money (Gongdezhu 功德主) for the construction of the garden house (Image 04 and Image 05). Image 06 shows the plaque of the garden house, and the handwriting belongs to Puchu Zhao 趙朴初. The garden house is located half way up Fangshan 房山. It is actually not a simple garden house 亭 as its name shows, but includes three houses.
Subject	Fangshan; Shicha Garden House; Stele; Buddhism; Ming dynasty
Geographic Location	Fangshan (China); 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	10.14288/1.0438686
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87266
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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