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Hangzhou: Stele of the Brick Pagoda of Master Sengcan
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Hangzhou: Stele of the Brick Pagoda of Master Sengcan
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Hangzhou: Stele of the Brick Pagoda of Master Sengcan
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Hangzhou: Stele of the Brick Pagoda of Master Sengcan
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Hangzhou: Stele of the Brick Pagoda of Master Sengcan
CHINA, Zhejiang, Hangzhou; Sui dynasty (581–618), dated 592; Regular script; Rubbing; 15.5 x 11.4 cm; Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou, China
This stele was unearthed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang in 1982. The epigraph states that in 592 of the Sui dynasty, Master Sengcan, the Third Patriarch of the Chan school, went into reclusion in a cave on Wangongshan of Shuzhou (present day Anhui). A pagoda was erected for veneration, and the inscription was recorded by his disciple, Daoxin. A postscript on the right side of the stele reads, Made on the 12th year of the Sui dynasty." This inscription revealed that during the persecution of Buddhism under the rule of Emperor Wu (reigned 561-578) of the Northern Zhou dynasty |
