The stele tablet of a thousand Buddhist statues (千佛碑), Yunju Temple (雲居寺)

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The stele tablet of a thousand Buddhist statues (千佛碑), Yunju Temple (雲居寺) Liu, Yimin; Xie, Qiye; Wang, Yake; Bi, Youteng; Yao, Huiqiao

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The stele tablet of a thousand Buddhist statues (千佛碑) at Yunju Temple (雲居寺). The tablet is full of small shrines on all sides, with more than a thousand carved Buddhist statues inset into the stone. The front of the tablet was engraved in 621 during the Sui Dynasty 隨 (581-618), whose words are now difficult to read. This form of inscription, which is rare in China, was unearthed at Dou Dian 窦店 Ancient City site in Fangshan District 房山 and moved to Yunju Temple 雲居寺 in the 1970s.The texture is turquoise, 2.66 meters high.

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Title	The stele tablet of a thousand Buddhist statues (千佛碑), Yunju Temple (雲居寺)
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	The stele tablet of a thousand Buddhist statues (千佛碑) at Yunju Temple (雲居寺). The tablet is full of small shrines on all sides, with more than a thousand carved Buddhist statues inset into the stone. The front of the tablet was engraved in 621 during the Sui Dynasty 隨 (581-618), whose words are now difficult to read. This form of inscription, which is rare in China, was unearthed at Dou Dian 窦店 Ancient City site in Fangshan District 房山 and moved to Yunju Temple 雲居寺 in the 1970s.The texture is turquoise, 2.66 meters high.
Subject	Yunju Temple; Buddhism; Temples; Sui dynasty
Geographic Location	Fengshuan (China); Beijing (China); 39.3629; 115.462
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	10.14288/1.0438788
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87361
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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