| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Beijing, Beijing Shi (municipality), China | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | ca. 1271-1644 (inclusive) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Arniko | en_US |
| dc.date | 1271-1644 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-19T16:17:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-12-19T16:17:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1271-1644 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 253053 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 2982 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/168663 | |
| dc.description | Raking view of main entrance gate, with Imperial roof decorations (yan shou) from Fuchengmennei Street; The Miaoying si (Temple of the Miraculous Response) is one of the Buddhist temples and lamaseries in Beijing which predate the Yuan city; the original buildings dated to the Liao. Stupa-type pagodas flourished between the 13th and 18th centuries, when the Chinese were close to or keen to placate their Lamaist Buddhist neighbors in Mongolia and Tibet. As a result, the stupas are closer to Tibetan forms: giant, white, tapering bottle shapes topped with bronze flattened umbrella shapes. The prototype and most notable is the Bai ta (White Pagoda or White Dagoba; 1271, Yuan Dynasty), which dominates the temple complex. Built by Arniko, a Nepalese artist and architect employed by Kublai Khan, it took ten years to complete. The rest of the remaining buildings date from the Ming Dynasty (the area as rebuilt was smaller, 3.2 acres total). The White Stupa was spared during the Cultural Revolution, but the temple suffered severe damage in the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/13/2014) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | painted wood; stone; bronze; unglazed grey roof tiles | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | deities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Buddhism and art--China | en_US |
| dc.subject | tantric Buddhism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Yüan | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ming | en_US |
| dc.title | Miaoying Temple | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Miaoying si | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | 妙应寺 | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-CH-B-MM-A01 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Chinese | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling), painting and painting techniques | en_US |
| vra.worktype | temple | en_US |
| vra.worktype | pagoda (building) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | monastery | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Arniko (Nepalese architect, ca. 1244-ca. 1306) | en_US |
