Inlaid Stone Tablets in the Northern Wall of the Main Hall in Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺)

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Inlaid Stone Tablets in the Northern Wall of the Main Hall in Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺) Xie, Yifeng; Guan, Zhongyue; Wu, Meilian; Cavayero, Michael; Liang, Yunyan

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Inlaid Stone Tablets in the Northern Wall of the Main Hall in Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺). The title of the inscription is "The Sutra of Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha". Seven stone boards are inlaid on the east side, measuring a total of 192 cm high and 373 cm long. Eight stone boards are inlaid on the west end, measuring a total of 192 cm high and 386 cm long. Each character's diameter is 4.5 cm. The date reads "司礼监太监冯保书”名款、万历丁丑 (Written by eunuch Feng Bao of the Institute in charge of Ritual Ceremony, year Dingchou during the reign of Wanli, 1577)."

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Title	Inlaid Stone Tablets in the Northern Wall of the Main Hall in 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	Inlaid Stone Tablets in the Northern Wall of the Main Hall in Tuṣita Temple (Doushuai si 兜率寺). The title of the inscription is "The Sutra of Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha". Seven stone boards are inlaid on the east side, measuring a total of 192 cm high and 373 cm long. Eight stone boards are inlaid on the west end, measuring a total of 192 cm high and 386 cm long. Each character's diameter is 4.5 cm. The date reads "司礼监太监冯保书”名款、万历丁丑 (Written by eunuch Feng Bao of the Institute in charge of Ritual Ceremony, year Dingchou during the reign of Wanli, 1577)."
Subject	Stone; Stele; Sutra; Ming dynasty; Feng Bao; Doushuai Temple
Geographic Location	Fangshan; 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	10.14288/1.0438734
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87310
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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