Vajra Sutra Stele 金剛經碑, Shijing shan (石經山)

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Vajra Sutra Stele 金剛經碑, Shijing shan (石經山) Liu, Yimin; Xie, Qiye; Wang, Yake; Bi, Youteng; Yao, Huiqiao

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There are two steles near the entrance of Leiyin Cave (Leiyin dong 雷音洞) of Shijing shan (石經山). The right one was carved with the Vajra Sutra (金剛經), which is 149.02cm high, 19.5cm wide and 91.3cm long. The base is 31cm high and 60 wide. According to the inscriptions on both the stele and the base, the base was built during the reign of Empress Wu of Zhou (Alt. Qu Zetian 武則天, r.690-705) during the Tang Dynasty 唐 (618-907), whereas the stele was built during the Ming Dynasty 明 (1368-1644).

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Title	Vajra Sutra Stele 金剛經碑, Shijing shan (石經山)
Creator	Liu, Yimin; Xie, Qiye; Wang, Yake; Bi, Youteng; Yao, Huiqiao
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-07-05
Description	There are two steles near the entrance of Leiyin Cave (Leiyin dong 雷音洞) of Shijing shan (石經山). The right one was carved with the Vajra Sutra (金剛經), which is 149.02cm high, 19.5cm wide and 91.3cm long. The base is 31cm high and 60 wide. According to the inscriptions on both the stele and the base, the base was built during the reign of Empress Wu of Zhou (Alt. Qu Zetian 武則天, r.690-705) during the Tang Dynasty 唐 (618-907), whereas the stele was built during the Ming Dynasty 明 (1368-1644).
Subject	The Stone Scripture Mountain; Buddhism; Canon; Tang dynasty; Ming dynasty; Sutra; Stele
Geographic Location	Fengshuan (China); Beijing (China); 39.379; 115.4540
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliations: University of Arizona, Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University
Series	Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available	2024-01-24
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0438782
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87355
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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