Stone pagoda on the south platform (nantai shita 南台石塔), Shijing shan (石經山)

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Stone pagoda on the south platform (nantai shita 南台石塔), Shijing shan (石經山) Liu, Yimin; Xie, Qiye; Wang, Yake; Bi, Youteng; Yao, Huiqiao

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Stone pagoda on the south platform (nantai shita 南台石塔) of Shijing shan (石經山). The pagoda probably dates back to the Tianbao Era天寶 (742-756) in the Tang dynasty 唐 (618-907). The roof tiles are the Tang style, and the stele on the side record the chief of merit (gonde zhu 功德主), but the name is unknown. The height of the body of the pagoda is 114 cm, and the base of the pagoda is a square, with the length and width of 92 cm. The top of the pagoda is 18 cm high. Both the eave and top are square. The side of the eave is 135 cm, and the side of the top square is 52 cm.

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Title	Stone pagoda on the south platform (nantai shita 南台石塔), 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	Stone pagoda on the south platform (nantai shita 南台石塔) of Shijing shan (石經山). The pagoda probably dates back to the Tianbao Era天寶 (742-756) in the Tang dynasty 唐 (618-907). The roof tiles are the Tang style, and the stele on the side record the chief of merit (gonde zhu 功德主), but the name is unknown. The height of the body of the pagoda is 114 cm, and the base of the pagoda is a square, with the length and width of 92 cm. The top of the pagoda is 18 cm high. Both the eave and top are square. The side of the eave is 135 cm, and the side of the top square is 52 cm.
Subject	The Stone Scripture Mountain; Buddhism; Canon; Tang dynasty; Ming dynasty; Pagoda
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	10.14288/1.0438785
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87358
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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