Precious Stone Buddhist Temple on the Yangtze
Item
-
Title
-
Precious Stone Buddhist Temple on the Yangtze
-
Caption
-
Yuyin Hill and Shibaozhai. (Stone Seal, or Jade Seal Temple, on the Yangtze River. Information from Bill Gentry.)
-
Identifier
-
DCG_037
-
Alternative Identifier
-
262-6
-
Description
-
In the foreground one can see the tiled rooftops of houses with laundry hanging to dry on ropes strung between them. Behind these is a sheer rock face with a multistoried temple on its face. The temple is formed like a pyramid with a terminal point at the top of the cliff.
-
Creator
-
Graham, David Crockett
-
Date Created
-
1914
-
Location
-
Shabaozhai, Chongqing
-
Original Format
-
Glass plate
-
Source
-
Whitman College and Northwest Archives
-
Provenance
-
Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughers of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
-
Record Date
-
2024-09-24
-
Contributor
-
Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
-
Type
-
Still Image
-
References
-
David Crockett Graham to "Classmates," Suifu, April 12th, 1914. In David Crockett Graham. n/d. Autobiography.
-
Subject
-
Yangtze River
-
abstract
-
“One of the most interesting sights is Precious Stone Castle. A stone cliff rises perpendicularly to the height of about one hundred and fifty feet. On top of this is a Buddhist temple which is reached by means of a wooden pavilion eleven stories high. Inside the temple the traveller is shown a sort of a bowl carved in the rock, with a small
hole coming into it. It is said that formerly enough rice came through the hole into the stone basin to supply the needs of the priests, but that the priests became greedy and enlarged the hole, whereupon the flow of rice ceased. During the revolution the natives of the place went into the temple and smashed every idol. No effort has been made to repair the idols, which lie in broken heaps on the floor” (Graham 1914).
