Stele
Limestone
Stele
CHINA; Western Wei dynasty
The damaged register at the top is believed to depict Vimalakirti and Manjusri seated in debate. Sakyamuni and Prabhutaratna Buddhas are sitting side by side in the following register. The central register is divided into three sections. Sakyamuni Buddha flanked by two disciples is in the middle section with Bodhisattvas and Heavenly Kings on either side. The bottom register is divided into nine sections with mountain censers, lions, images of donors making offerings, and other ritual scenes with Chinese characters in seal script. An inscription at the very bottom, states the stele was dedicated in 554 by several Buddhists led by Xue Shanju.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1165.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Stele." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1165.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Stele" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1165.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Stele. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1165).
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