Ming dynasty octagonal dharani pillar, engraved with the Dharani of the Victorious Buddha-Crown, originally standing at the Temple of Azure Clouds (碧雲寺) in Beijing.
A dharani pillar (Chinese: 陀羅尼幢; pinyin: tuóluóní chuáng), sutra pillar, or jingchuang (Chinese: 經幢; pinyin: jīngchuáng) is a type of stone pillar engraved with dhāraṇī-sūtras or simple dhāraṇī incantations that is found in China. Dharani pillars were usually erected outside Buddhist temples, and became popular during the Tang dynasty (618–907).
A dharanipillar (Chinese: 陀羅尼幢; pinyin: tuóluóní chuáng), sutra pillar, or jingchuang (Chinese: 經幢; pinyin: jīngchuáng) is a type of stone pillar engraved...
4930 The Tangut dharanipillars (Chinese: 西夏文石幢; pinyin: Xīxiàwén shíchuáng) are two stone dharanipillars, with the text of a dhāraṇī-sutra inscribed...
Dharanis (IAST: dhāraṇī), also known as Parittas, are Buddhist chants, mnemonic codes, incantations, or recitations, usually the mantras consisting of...
six piers in its seventh block showed signs of damage and leakage. The Dharani Portal, an Integrated land records system launched by the incumbent BRS...
The Allahabad pillar is a stambha, containing one of the pillar edicts of Ashoka, erected by Ashoka, emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the...
The latest known text written in the Tangut language, the Tangut dharanipillars, dates to 1502, suggesting that the language was still in use nearly...
Haeju Dharani Monument is one of the National Treasures of North Korea. It is located in Haechong-dong, Haeju, North Korea. Similar Dharanipillars are...
centuries. The last known example of the script occurs on a pair of Tangut dharanipillars found at Baoding in present-day Hebei province, which were erected...
soldiers Pagoda of Chongsheng Temple, the royal temple of the Dali Dharanipillar of Dali, 1220 Bronze statue of Guanyin from Dali Dali vajra sceptre...
and the Tantras in East Asia. Brill, page 381. Howard, Angela F. "The Dhāraṇīpillar of Kunming, Yunnan: A legacy of esoteric Buddhism and burial rites of...
or mantras like the Six syllable mantra of Avalokiteshvara. Pillars inscribed with dhāraṇīs and mantras were also common. The synthesis of Esoteric Buddhist...
Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Howard, Angela F. "The Dhāraṇīpillar of Kunming, Yunnan: A legacy of esoteric Buddhism and burial rites of...
inscribed in Tangut and other languages Tangut dharanipillars — two dharanipillars inscribed with text of a dhāraṇī-sutra in Tangut script, dated 1502 Du 2012...
examples of Tangut writing are Buddhist inscriptions dated 1502 on two dharanipillars from a temple in Baoding, Hebei. By the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) all...
The latest surviving example of Tangut numerals occur on the Tangut dharanipillars which were erected in Baoding on the 10th month of the 15th year of...
padme hum inscribed in six scripts Tangut dharanipillars – two 1502 dharanipillars inscribed with the Dharani-sutra of the Victorious Buddha-Crown in...
discovered a stone dharanipillar decorated with three entwining dragons and engraved with the text of the Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra in Kyoto's Anshō-ji...
military campaigns. The Allahabad Pillar inscription suggests that Samudragupta's aim was the unification of the earth (dharani-bandha), which suggests that...
by the many contemporaneous inscriptions of this period. Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra in Siddhaṃ on palm leaf in 609 CE found in Hōryū-ji, Japan. The last...
stone pagoda so called because it originally contained the Hōkyōin (宝篋印) dharani (陀羅尼) sūtra. It was originally used as a cenotaph for the King of Wuyue...
Buddhism. Among the earliest woodblock prints in the world, a version of the Dharani sutra dated between 704 and 751 was found there in 1966. Its Buddhist text...
other designs. The bodies are carved with Buddhist sutra Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra. Ziwei Bridge 惠力寺经幢. jiaxing.gov.cn (in Chinese). 13 January 2014...
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