Cultural relics of Tang and Song dynasties
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From: Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple Author: Office
2019-12-22 00:26 | Hits: 363
From: Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple Author: Office
From 1978 to 1980, the
largest-scale maintenance was conducted on the three Pagodas since
Jiangjing Year of Ming Dynasty. About 680 Cultural relics from Nanzhao,
the Kingdom of Dali were excavated then. It boasted to be the most
abundant and significant batch of the relics from Nanzhao by far which
attracted the wide attention of the realm home and abroad. The cultural
relics on show including the hand-written Buddhist sutras, Buddhist
texts, the Dharmakaya relics, the golden models of the three pagodas,
the bronze mirror, jade and the crystal figures of Buddha guided people
to experience the long process of the history, the flourish economy and
brilliant cultures back to one thousand years ago in an instant, thus
providing precious concrete materials for the study on the politics,
economy, culture and Buddhist art during the Kingdom of Dali.