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Miniature Votive Stupa
Miniature Votive Stupa
小型石塔
AD 435
Steatite
Overall: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1990.84
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There are trigrams, three horizontal lines, broken or continuous, above each of the eight bodhisattvas in the stupa's lower section.
Description
This sutra pillar, inscribed with a sacred Buddhist text, belongs to a group of miniature stupas (jingta) that were found exclusively in the Gansu corridor, Northwest China. Ranging in date between AD 426–36, some of them bear the names of the lay Buddhist donors who commissioned them. A stupa is an architectural round structure built for the veneration of Buddhist relics. Miniature stupas may have commemorated the visit of a sacred site or represented donations to religious communities and sites.
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