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Stone Inscription for Buddha's Footprint Revealed in Shaanxi
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7-Jun-2004 - |
An inscription on a stone bearing a copy of Buddha's footprint has been revealed to the public by the Cultural Relic and Travel Bureau of Tongchuan City in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The 35-cm-long, 25-cm-wide and 10-cm-tall relic, with 24 Chinese characters on it, was confirmed as bearing the handwriting of Xuan Zang, a noted Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty (618-907),according to the bureau.
The stone on which the Buddha's footprint was duplicated was once kept in Yuhua Palace, which was established in the Tang Dynasty and was ruined in the middle period of last century.
It is said that Sakyamuni once left his footprint on a stone in his hometown before his death. Xuan Zang made a copy back during a pilgrimage for Buddhist scriptures in India.
The monk engaged a skilled stone carver to duplicate the footprint for the Yuhua Palace and made a stone inscription personally 1,400 years ago. |
7-Jun-2004 - |
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