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Buddhist inscription of a hymn in praise of the Avatamsaka Sūtra (Huayan jing 華嚴經), dated the first year of Tianbao (天保) of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550 A.D.) Li, Lan

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This paragraph of the carving sutra was carved on the left side of the inscription of the Master Fang. The content of this hymn is to emphasize the unsurpassed position of the Vairocana Buddha, as well as how aspicious the buddhaland of the Vaurocana Buddha is. It has a total of 117 characters and was written in lishu (隶书), an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy.

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Title
Buddhist inscription of a hymn in praise of the Avatamsaka Sūtra (Huayan jing 華嚴經), dated the first year of Tianbao (天保) of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550 A.D.)
Creator
Li, Lan
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2018-07-19
Description
This paragraph of the carving sutra was carved on the left side of the inscription of the Master Fang. The content of this hymn is to emphasize the unsurpassed position of the Vairocana Buddha, as well as how aspicious the buddhaland of the Vaurocana Buddha is. It has a total of 117 characters and was written in lishu (隶书), an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy.
Subject
Xiaonanhai Grottoes; Sūtra; Buddhism; Northern Qi dynasty
Geographic Location
Anyang Xian (China); Anyang Shi (China); 36.0389467592593; 114.106111111111
Type
Still Image
Language
chi
Series
Cluster 3.2: Historical Reality through the Reflections between Image and Text
Date Available
2019-11-19
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0385555
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72328
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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