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Title: Buddhist deity, Mt. Emei, Sichuan, China, 1906
Creator: Manly, Wilson Edward
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: "The great idol at Da O Si. Called Pu Shien [Pu Hsien], the All Virtuous. One of the three daughters of Buddha. Mt. Omei [Mt. Emei], W. China. Idols covered with gold leaf. R.C.R. W.E. M. photo. 1906." The idol is shown seated on a dais with censers and incense for offerings at her feet.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 15.5 x 11.5 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-yds-rg082-005-0073-0053.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-83015
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg082-005-0073-0053.jpg
Subject: Buddhism
Religious practice
Customs and traditions
General views
Time Period: 1906
Place: Asia
China
Sichuan
Source: IMP/YDS/RG082/005/0073/0053 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Manly Family Papers
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
image/tiff
impa-m980

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