Database for Buddhist Cave Temples in China

Kults Pages

pp.50-58

Plan

Fig.99a

Image Links (14)

Postancient Buddhist Culture in Central Asia : vol.4 (3)

• 0009A group of knights at the "16 Sword-Carriers' Cave"
• 0010Two sword carrier paintings at the "16 Sword-Carriers' Cave"
• 0040The 16 Sword-Carriers' Cave, Qyzil (according to Grunwedel)
• 0040(according to Grunwedel)

Ancient Kucha : vol.1 (2)

• 0039Donator picture from the corridor α, α' the cave of the sword carriers, Qyzyl, Kultst. p. 56 at α' 1. Height of the original 1.10 m.
• 0039Donator picture from the corridor α, α' the cave of the sword carriers, Qyzyl, Kultst. p. 56 at α 3, 4. Height of the original 1.10 m.
• 0107Floating- and music playing Gods from the cave of the sword carriers, Qyzyl, over the Parinirvâṇa painting in the rear corridor, Kultst. p. 57.

Ancient Buddhist Temples in Chinese Turkistan : vol.1 (9)

• 0056no caption
• 0056no caption
• 0057Group in the lunette over the door. The lower part is striped off the door covere with wood and the balcony out before the sides destroyed.
• 0058Buddha sermons 1, 2
• 0058Buddha sermons at 2, 3.
• 0059Buddha sermon at III.
• 0060Vajrapâni from 2 at b. Original size 26 cm. Aureole green.
• 0060Hindû from 3 at m. Size of the Original 25 cm. Hair and beard light blue.
• 0060Brahmâ from II at e. Size of the Original 26 cm. Hair and beard light blue.
• 0060Two-headed figure, four-legged Garuḍa from the center of the vault (2.) Original 1 m height.
• 0060A bay vault. /B space. Here was the balcony, 60 cm high. /C 15 cm in the square balcony holes in those the beam sticked. Trompe-l'œil form of these carriers results in the painted balcony in the cave >> with the musician choir <<. p. 64 Fig. 124. /D 10 cm. /8 cm. The hatched places mark the places, where painted edge mounted.
• 0060Picture of the moon from the center of the vault (6). The sun was a red brown disk with broad, white, blue-outlined edge (4). The moon is white with red-brown semi-circle, the stars, which go around it, lies in bluish gray base.
• 0061Part the vault celing over 1, 2. Lowest row: Bodhisattva group, A, b, C.
• 0061Part the vault celing over 2, 3. Lowest row: Bodhisattva group, e, f.
• 0062Part the vault celing over I, II. Lowest row: Bodhisattva group, a, b, c.
• 0062Part the vault celing over II, III. Lowest row: Bodhisattva group, d, e, f.
• 0063Right side, lowest row, group at d.
• 0063Left side of the upper limit, third row from above = 21 (over 1, 2, 3). Bajadere before Buddha, height original 55 cm.
• 0064Donator pictures with a' 1, 2, 3, 4; Height original 1.15 m. Costume color: 1 skirt light-grey, outside skirt edging very brightly blue, internal ring of the circles light blue (more darkly than the back of the edging), ring dark-brown, dots white; trousers light blue, over trousers white matte-brown shoes with red-brown edge. Servant: light blue skirt with dark-brown edging. 2 skirt light blue, skirt edging outside light-grey with blue points, inside dark-brown, trousers white, over trousers red with white edging; shoes matte-brown. 3 skirt lightgreen, with outside brown edging with blue points, trousers blue, over trousers knows with brown edging; shoes red-brown. 4 = 2. Those hair were originally everywhere red, the eyes apparently blue? Trace.
• 0064Large picture at β (thin wall of of the rear [crosswise] - corridor). Width of the original 2.95 m, height of 2.05 m. Trace.