The Pao-hsiang Lou Pantheon: photo 481
Photo 481 of 757 in Gallery: The Pao-hsiang Lou Pantheon
Image title: Amoghadarshin (Bodhisattva)
Description of the photo
This sculpture depicts Amoghadarśin (Bodhisattva) from the Pao-hsiang Lou pantheon: a Lama temple situated in the garden of the Tz’u-ning palace in the Forbidden City (Gu-gong) at Peiping. It bears the serial-number 4B47: the first digit means that this image stands at the fourth of the six side chapels (from north to south); the letter B indicates that this statuette is situated in the boxes in the cabinets to the right (south) of the central altar. This image further bears number 555 which can be used to look it up in the Chinese index of the source book.
Gallery information:
These plates depict sculptures (inscribed pedestals) from the Lamaistic Pantheon found in the Pao-hsiang Lou (also, Bao-xiang Lou), embedded in the book "Two Lamaistic Pantheons" (1937) by Walter Eugene Clark; From Materials collected by the Late Baron A Von Stael-Holstein in 1928.
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