Seven-storey Square Pagoda

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Seven-storey Square Pagoda Xie, Yifeng; Guan, Zhongyue; Wu, Meilian; Cavayero, Michael; Liang, Yunyan

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Seven-storied, multi-eave square pagoda with arched exterior roof; produced in white marble with southern facing base, from the Fifteenth Year of the Kaiyuan Era 開元 (727). The western wall of the first story contains an inscription stating: “大唐雲居寺石浮圖銘並序 (Inscription and Preface of the Stone Buddha of Cloud Dwelling Temple, the Great Tang dynasty)," written by Wang Dayue 王大悅. The inscription includes the date: “開元十五年仲春八日 (The eighth day of late spring of the fifteenth year of the Kaiyuan era; 728)." The southern wall contains a square open niche; the opening of the niche has carvings of guardian (figures) on both sides. The height of the first story is 112cm, the surface area is 87cm, the depth is 85.5cm.

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Title	Seven-storey Square Pagoda
Creator	Xie, Yifeng; Guan, Zhongyue; Wu, Meilian; Cavayero, Michael; Liang, Yunyan
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-07-05
Description	Seven-storied, multi-eave square pagoda with arched exterior roof; produced in white marble with southern facing base, from the Fifteenth Year of the Kaiyuan Era 開元 (727). The western wall of the first story contains an inscription stating: “大唐雲居寺石浮圖銘並序 (Inscription and Preface of the Stone Buddha of Cloud Dwelling Temple, the Great Tang dynasty)," written by Wang Dayue 王大悅. The inscription includes the date: “開元十五年仲春八日 (The eighth day of late spring of the fifteenth year of the Kaiyuan era; 728)." The southern wall contains a square open niche; the opening of the niche has carvings of guardian (figures) on both sides. The height of the first story is 112cm, the surface area is 87cm, the depth is 85.5cm.
Subject	Stone; Pagoda; Tang dynasty; Yunju Temple
Geographic Location	Fangshan; Beijing (China); 39.609342; 115.77
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	10.14288/1.0438740
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87316
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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