Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries
Glass and gold
Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries
CHINA, Shaanxi, Xi’an; Song dynasty
The nested reliquaries were excavated from the base of Tiefo Temple Pagoda in Xi’an. They were created to contain the Buddha’s relics in the 10th or 11th centuries.
The rectangular gold reliquary box has a beveled edge lid. An inscription on the box relates to the donors who sponsored the enshrinement of the Buddha’s relics. The reliquary bottle is kept inside the box. The bottle is made from glass and has a flat base, a square cross section with round shoulders, and a wide neck. A white hemispherical stone stopper is at the top, and the overall bottle is undecorated. The bottle contained relics and items made from glass and agate.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 336.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 336.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:336.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 336).
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