Close-up of two standing monk statues in Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu dong 毗廬洞

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Close-up of two standing monk statues in Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu dong 毗廬洞 Anderl, Christoph

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These two paired statues of standing monks are located in the Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu cave (Pilu dong 毗盧洞), Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. They date to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and can be found on either side of the central triad. Their bases are detached from the altar, hence they are moveable statues. They are 1.32 meters high. Photos [1] and [2] show a young monk on the west side (viewer's left), while photo [3] shows a relatively elderly monk on the east side (viewer's right). These two statues can tentatively be identified as portraying Ānanda and Kāśyapa. Metadata created by Huajie Fan (May 31, 2022)

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Title	Close-up of two standing monk statues in Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu dong 毗廬洞
Creator	Anderl, Christoph
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2019-05-23
Description	These two paired statues of standing monks are located in the Thousand Buddha cave (Qianfo dong 千佛洞), Pilu cave (Pilu dong 毗盧洞), Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. They date to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and can be found on either side of the central triad. Their bases are detached from the altar, hence they are moveable statues. They are 1.32 meters high. Photos [1] and [2] show a young monk on the west side (viewer's left), while photo [3] shows a relatively elderly monk on the east side (viewer's right). These two statues can tentatively be identified as portraying Ānanda and Kāśyapa. Metadata created by Huajie Fan (May 31, 2022)
Subject	Anyue Buddhist sites; Sichuan Buddhist art; Pilu Cave; Buddhism; Stone carving; Thousand Buddhas Cave
Geographic Location	Sichuan Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Yuanjue dong (China); 29.929163; 105.630846
Type	Still Image
Language	zxx
Notes	Author Affiliation: Ghent University
Series	Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available	2023-03-24
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0428610
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84050
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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