Tuyoq Cave 1: Buddha Land (detail)
Tuyoq Cave 1: Buddha Land
CHINA, Xinjiang, Turpan
This mural is located in the center of the upper register of the back wall. It depicts orderly rows of trees in Amitabha Buddha’s Western Pure Land. Each tree is colored in deep green and bordered by water and grain patterns. Lotus flowers of various shapes and sizes with lotus-born children inside them are found beneath each tree. This concept is derived from the Infinite Life Sutra, which describes how these children are reborn into the Western Pure Land from seven-jeweled lotuses.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves T-Z, page 1471.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Tuyoq Cave 1: Buddha Land." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves T-Z, vol. 9, 2016, pp. 1471.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Tuyoq Cave 1: Buddha Land" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves T-Z, 9:1471.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Tuyoq Cave 1: Buddha Land. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves T-Z (Vol. 9, pp. 1471).
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