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| [Photo] 231 |
CENTRAL PANEL OF TEMPERA PAINTING REPRESENTING WESTERN PARADISE, ON NORTH WALL OF CAVE CH. VI, CH‛IEN-FO-TUNG. |
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PAINTINGS IN TEMPERA, REPRESENTING SCENES OF WESTERN PARADISE ABOVE, AND MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS BELOW, ON SOUTH WALL OF CELLA IN CAVE CH. XII, CH‛IEN-FO-TUNG. |
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are decorated on either side with an imposing p
to cypress coffins and carrying offerings. The br
red and light green stoles make up a fine colour-sche
variety of the figures. Their rich ornaments a
ity of the dais. An elaborate floral diaper in brighter c
ling of the cella is covered with a profusion of scen
surrounding figures.
37 is a somewhat but little smaller in size than Ch
of frescoes. In wealth and variety of its mural
and merits closer description all the more a
adequate number of photographs.¹¹ As seen in
the sculptured platform of the cella have disappear
on the wall-paintings of the cella have survived
here and there at the foot of the dais. In
image in the centre there rises now a small Stūpa
namely the three-fold square base and spherical d
one side of the image platform is backed in the centre
and spreading at the top on a level with the cornice of t
mandara. The face of the screen prayer is painte
in a worshipping attitude on either side of what must
tion is shown an elaborate canopy surrounded by
ding in front of this screen must have been a Garuda
yed by the remains of a colossal tail in low relievo seen
as well as by the stucco fragment of a colossal bird's h
tion of the little Stūpa dome. Along the sides of the
to stucoed images, four each on the north and s
tion is painted plaster relievo and rises in two receding
spectively. In front of it a roughly built modern altar serv
he ceiling of the rella rises in the shape of a truncated
ling formed by two receding courses with three more s
in perspective. The decoration of two of these
tion with Buddha figures and of an elaborate valu
ing verses or mouldings are decorated with floral scro
centre, with a large meander surrounded by a flower diap
covered with stencilled rows of seated Buddha figures, a
is covered by the screen containing in the centre an oblo
tified apostles, each of which is occupied by the s
comply with his attendants (Fig. 215).
The paintings of the cella walls, to which we may turn n
of relievo while on both the south and north walls (Fig. 2
ably the west wall, 45 feet long, and passing
of which only the lower portion is seen in Fig. 216,
small Rema
at the porch
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