Five-Story Pagoda
Sandstone
Five-Story Pagoda
CHINA; Northern Wei dynasty
The five-story pagoda was found near the Dafo Temple in Dunhuang, Gansu. There are carvings on all four sides and it was made to imitate a wooden and brick pagoda. Only the square base and five tiers of the original model remain. Each tier is surrounded by niches incorporating scenes in relief and between tiers there are tubular tile canopies. The base of the pagoda is engraved with a section from the Ekottara Agama.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 331.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Five-Story Pagoda." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 331.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Five-Story Pagoda" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:331.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Five-Story Pagoda. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 331).
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