Large Buddha in Temple, Mt. Omei

Title: Large Buddha in Temple, Mt. Omei
Caption: An image of Buddha worshipped as a god in a temple near Omeishien.
Identifier: DCG_017
Alternative Identifier: 096-184
Description: A serene looking Buddha statue sits cross-legged upon a lotus flower with an arched background representing light behind him. His hands are forming a variation of the Uttarabodhi mudra of Supreme Enlightenment, the index and middle fingers pointing to the sky, respectively representing air and ether.
Creator: Graham, David Crockett
Date Created: 1925
Location: Dafo Zen Temple, Emieshan City, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/13100519/dafu-zen-temple.html
Event: 1924-1926 David Crockett Graham Mt. Omei Treks
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.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2024-10-09
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
Published In: Graham, David Crockett. 1928. Religion in Szechuan Province, China. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 80(4): Plate 13.
Subject: deity