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Wade Fund, 1929.983", "current_location": "241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures", "title": "Section of a Dharani Pillar", "creation_date": "618\u2013907", "creation_date_earliest": 618, "creation_date_latest": 907, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Tang dynasty (618\u2013907)"], "technique": "limestone", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Tang Dynasty", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 50.2 x 40.4 cm (19 3/4 x 15 7/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.502, "height_inch": 19, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.404, "width_inch": 15, "width_inch_fraction": 0.875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131929", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1929\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": ["2787.1929"], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This octagonal stone pillar, with Buddhist figures carved on its eight sides, is part of a <em>dharani</em> pillar commissioned by Buddhist believers to pay tribute to the dead. The eight inscriptions seen here are eulogies dedicated by eight families to their deceased family members. <br><br>Dharanis were a form of spell in Esoteric Buddhism said to possess supernatural power when being recited or carried and were incorporated into sutras, such as the <em>Buddha Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Sutra</em>. Dharani pillars, also called sutra pillars, became the dominant bearers of <em>Usnisa Vijaya Dharani</em> which supposedly helped sentient beings prolong life and destroy hardships of the eternal cycle of life and the realms of hell.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60757022"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "Hollis, Howard C. \"A Chinese Buddhist Pedestal.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 19, no. 4 (1932): 56\u201363.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 63", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137471"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 824", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n146"}, {"citation": "Yeung, Sara. \"Stone Eulogies.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine,</em> vol. 51, no. 4 (July/August 2011): 13\u201315.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 13\u201315", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2011-04/page/12/mode/2up"}, {"citation": "Vogelaar, Kevin. \"Locating the Xi'an Stele on the Four-Hundredth Anniversary of Its Discovery.\" In <em>Visual Culture in Medieval Syriac Traditions, </em>Emily Chesley, ed., 325\u2013387. 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