Xianjie Thousand Buddha Stele (Xian Jie Qian Fo Bei 賢劫千佛碑) , Yunju Temple (雲居寺)

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Xianjie Thousand Buddha Stele (Xian Jie Qian Fo Bei 賢劫千佛碑) , Yunju Temple (雲居寺) Liu, Qiuchan; Du, Jingting; Zhang, Haoran; Ma, Mingyue; Xu, Guofu

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Xianjie Thousand Buddha Stele (Xian Jie Qian Fo Bei 賢劫千佛碑) was engraved in the Sui Dynasty 隋 (581-618) and made of bluestone. The text contains 340 words. Four sides of the stele body are full of tiny shrines with 1009 Buddha statues carved inside, sitting in a lotus position with different gestures. There is an inscription stating the stele was engraved in 621. The words of inscription have are blurred. The words engraved in seal script on the upper part of the back of stele read: “The stele of thousands Buddhas engraved in the Sui Dynasty (元 , 1271-1368)”.

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Title	Xianjie Thousand Buddha Stele (Xian Jie Qian Fo Bei 賢劫千佛碑) , Yunju Temple (雲居寺)
Creator	Liu, Qiuchan; Du, Jingting; Zhang, Haoran; Ma, Mingyue; Xu, Guofu
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-07-05
Description	Xianjie Thousand Buddha Stele (Xian Jie Qian Fo Bei 賢劫千佛碑) was engraved in the Sui Dynasty 隋 (581-618) and made of bluestone. The text contains 340 words. Four sides of the stele body are full of tiny shrines with 1009 Buddha statues carved inside, sitting in a lotus position with different gestures. There is an inscription stating the stele was engraved in 621. The words of inscription have are blurred. The words engraved in seal script on the upper part of the back of stele read: “The stele of thousands Buddhas engraved in the Sui Dynasty (元 , 1271-1368)”.
Subject	Yunju Temple; Buddhism; Sui dynasty; Stele
Geographic Location	Fangshan; Beijing (China); 39.616093; 115.779947
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliations: Peking University, Jilin University, Sichuan 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	10.14288/1.0438795
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87369
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Postdoctoral; Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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