Record on the Procedures to Renovate the Heaven Ladder (Tianti 天梯) Route in Shangfang Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺)

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Record on the Procedures to Renovate the Heaven Ladder (Tianti 天梯) Route in Shangfang Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺) Xie, Yifeng; Guan, Zhongyue; Wu, Meilian; Cavayero, Michael; Liang, Yunyan

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Record on the Procedures to Renovate the Heaven Ladder (Tianti 天梯) Route in Shangfang Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺). The body of the stele measures 173 cm high, 84 cm wide, and 14 cm thick. The top portion measures 74 cm high, 90 cm wide, and 18 cm thick. The Guifu 龜趺 base measures 41 cm high, 140 cm wide, and 94 cm thick. The date reads: "明弘治七年 ([Inscribed in] the seventh year of the reign of Hongzhi of the Ming dynasty, 1494)". The top portion is carved with the pattern of dragons.

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Title	Record on the Procedures to Renovate the Heaven Ladder (Tianti 天梯) Route in Shangfang Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺)
Creator	Xie, Yifeng; Guan, Zhongyue; Wu, Meilian; Cavayero, Michael; Liang, Yunyan
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-07-04
Description	Record on the Procedures to Renovate the Heaven Ladder (Tianti 天梯) Route in Shangfang Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺). The body of the stele measures 173 cm high, 84 cm wide, and 14 cm thick. The top portion measures 74 cm high, 90 cm wide, and 18 cm thick. The Guifu 龜趺 base measures 41 cm high, 140 cm wide, and 94 cm thick. The date reads: "明弘治七年 ([Inscribed in] the seventh year of the reign of Hongzhi of the Ming dynasty, 1494)". The top portion is carved with the pattern of dragons.
Subject	Stone; Stele; Ming dynasty; Bixi; Guifu; Doushuai Temple
Geographic Location	Fangshan (China); Beijing (China); 39.677255; 115.828762
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	10.14288/1.0438733
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87309
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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