Stele commemorating the Renovation of Chongfu Temple (Chongfu Si 崇福寺)

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Stele commemorating the Renovation of Chongfu Temple (Chongfu Si 崇福寺) Xie, Yifeng; Guan, Zhongyue; Wu, Meilian; Cavayero, Michael; Liang, Yunyan

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Chongfu Temple (Chongfu Si 崇福寺) Stele. The overall height of the stele is 310 cm. The body of the stele measures 174 cm high and 26 cm deep. The base of the stele is the mythological figure, Guifu 龜趺, who holds up the stele. The base of the stele measures approximately 57x88 cm in height and width. On the front side of the stele, there are twenty vertical lines of inscriptions each containing approximately 50 characters. The colophon dates the stele to 1606 CE: "萬曆三十四年丙午仲春 ([Written in] the second lunar month of year Bingwu, the thirty forth year of Wanli reign)". There is no writing on the back side of the stele.

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Title	Stele commemorating the Renovation of Chongfu Temple (Chongfu Si 崇福寺)
Creator	Xie, Yifeng; Guan, Zhongyue; Wu, Meilian; Cavayero, Michael; Liang, Yunyan
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-07-03
Description	Chongfu Temple (Chongfu Si 崇福寺) Stele. The overall height of the stele is 310 cm. The body of the stele measures 174 cm high and 26 cm deep. The base of the stele is the mythological figure, Guifu 龜趺, who holds up the stele. The base of the stele measures approximately 57x88 cm in height and width. On the front side of the stele, there are twenty vertical lines of inscriptions each containing approximately 50 characters. The colophon dates the stele to 1606 CE: "萬曆三十四年丙午仲春 ([Written in] the second lunar month of year Bingwu, the thirty forth year of Wanli reign)". There is no writing on the back side of the stele.
Subject	Stele; Ming dynasty; Chongfu Temple; Bixi; Guifu
Geographic Location	Fangshan; Beijing (China); 39.884369; 116.369986
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliations: Hunan University, University of Pennsylvania, China Academy of Art, Hebei University
Series	Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available	2024-01-16
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0438713
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87289
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty; Graduate; Postdoctoral
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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