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Painted stone standing Buddha

97 (38'A)

Northern Qi Dynasty, mid-sixth century CE

(c- 550 -557)

From Longxingsi, Qingzhou, Shandong Province

Qingzhou Municipal Museum, Shandong Province

Unearthed on 17 November 1987 at a site approximately

100 meters east of the Qingzhou Municipal

Museum, this limestone sculpture, carved in the

round, depicts a gently smiling Buddha with a slender

frame and delicate features standing on a lotus

pod. The Jiaqing Qingzhou Prefecture Gazeteer (1522 -

1566) identifies the find-site as the Northern Wei

period Nanyang Monastery, renamed the Longxing

Monastery during the Tang dynasty. 1

The figure's hair, sculpted in crisp curls resembling

rows of snail shells, culminates in a conical

445 | BUDDHIST SCULPTURE FROM QINCZHOU

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