Defining the Image - Measurements in Image-Making (Fo Shuo Zaoxiang Liangdu Jing Jie) 佛說造像量度經解

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第 21 冊　No. 1419 佛說造像量度經解 清 工布查布譯 共 1 卷
Volume 21, No. 1419; Fo Shuo Zaoxiang Liangdu Jing Jie; Defining the Image - Measurements in Image-Making; Translated by Gongbuchabu in the Qing in 1 scroll

Summary

Contains images and instructions on creating Buddhist artwork.

English translation

Cai, Jingfeng 2000, The Buddhist Canon of Iconometry, Ulm: Fabri Verlag, p. 143.

Parallels

Willemen, Charles 2006, Defining the Image - Measurements in Image-Making, India: Sri Satguru Publications.

Notes

This text does not appear in the Korean canon. A Taishō footnote for this text reads: ＜原＞大日本續藏經 Source: Dai Nippon Zokuzōkyō [Supplementary Buddhist Canon].

Primary Source

Gongbuchabu, 《佛說造像量度經解》 'Fo Shuo Zaoxiang Liangdu Jing Jie,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 21, No. 1419, Accessed 2016-10-10, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T21n1419.

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