Pagoda Built in the 10th Year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang dynasty 開元十年唐塔, Yunju Temple 雲居寺

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Pagoda Built in the 10th Year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang dynasty 開元十年唐塔, Yunju Temple 雲居寺 Balkwill, Stephanie; Liu, Yifeng; Wu, Tzu-Wen; Zhang, Lusi; Liu, Yiling; Zhu, Zhaofeng

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This pagoda was built in the 10th year of the Kaiyuan reign (722-723) of the Tang dynasty 唐 (618-907) and is located at the northeast corner of the North Tower (Bei Ta 北塔) of the Yunju Temple (Yunju si 雲居寺) in Beijing. It is a small stone pagoda with bamboo shoots on four sides and is 4 meters high. The Pagoda and its base are square. The base is 86cm long. The height is 112cm. There is a small niche at the bottom of the tower, with a Buddha and two ministered bodhisattvas on the front and maids and officials on the left and right of the niche. There is an inscription on the outside of the tower. Image 01 and Image 02 show the side of the pagoda, Image 03 to Image 06 show the shrine and its inner statues, and Image 07 is the inscription of the pagoda.

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Title	Pagoda Built in the 10th Year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang dynasty 開元十年唐塔, 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	This pagoda was built in the 10th year of the Kaiyuan reign (722-723) of the Tang dynasty 唐 (618-907) and is located at the northeast corner of the North Tower (Bei Ta 北塔) of the Yunju Temple (Yunju si 雲居寺) in Beijing. It is a small stone pagoda with bamboo shoots on four sides and is 4 meters high. The Pagoda and its base are square. The base is 86cm long. The height is 112cm. There is a small niche at the bottom of the tower, with a Buddha and two ministered bodhisattvas on the front and maids and officials on the left and right of the niche. There is an inscription on the outside of the tower. Image 01 and Image 02 show the side of the pagoda, Image 03 to Image 06 show the shrine and its inner statues, and Image 07 is the inscription of the pagoda.
Subject	Pagoda; Yunju Temple; Buddhism; Tang dynasty
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	10.14288/1.0438689
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87263
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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