Add to ORKGRepresentation of [Confucius] in village temple in Northern ChinaChina. Skin RaftsCaption from Harrison Forman's book Changing China: Almost every community has its patron saint enshrined in the village temple.Photographic printGrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 1
Butter gods'These figures sometimes fifteen to twenty feet high are sculptured in colored butter for...
Print 1041 c1: Legendary official with bodyguard. Print c2: Warrior gods in a village temple.China:...
One of the many thousands of tiny towns in north China. A bit too small for a sizable wall; but the...
Print 1034: Lao-tze, founder of Taoism. China. Caption from Harrison Forman's book Changing China:...
Forman 1836 c1: Household idol -- god who watches over the crops. Forman 1836 c2: Kenanpo, the cave...
Forman 1809 c1: Worshippers in village temple, Sian [Xian], China. Forman 1809 c2: The age-old cust...
This is a photograph of "a temple to Confucius which is now being used as a high school. It is built...
Image published in Harrison Forman's book Changing China. Caption: Buddhism teaches the negation of...
My soldiers Fu& Ssu, at Chin-tz'o temple. Shansi [Shanxi].The Confucius Reflection upon Religious St...
Print 1045 c1: Legendary official. Print 1045 c2: A god in a village temple. Print 1045 c3: Villag...
Print 1037: Carved wood shrine in Confucian temple. In a Confucian temple a shrine to which respect...
The Song-Yuan period was a crucial time in the formation and circulation of several kinds of visual ...
Forman 1041 c1: Confucian scholar. Forman 1040 c2: Temple god.China: Lanchow [Lanzhou] Moslems [Mus...
Print 1031: Ancestor worship. China.Lanchow [Lanzhou], Nantow [Nantou, Taiwan] and China sheepThe p...
The sacred landscape of imperial China was dotted with Buddhist monasteries, Daoist temples, shrines...
Butter gods'These figures sometimes fifteen to twenty feet high are sculptured in colored butter for...
Print 1041 c1: Legendary official with bodyguard. Print c2: Warrior gods in a village temple.China:...
One of the many thousands of tiny towns in north China. A bit too small for a sizable wall; but the...
Print 1034: Lao-tze, founder of Taoism. China. Caption from Harrison Forman's book Changing China:...
Forman 1836 c1: Household idol -- god who watches over the crops. Forman 1836 c2: Kenanpo, the cave...
Forman 1809 c1: Worshippers in village temple, Sian [Xian], China. Forman 1809 c2: The age-old cust...
This is a photograph of "a temple to Confucius which is now being used as a high school. It is built...
Image published in Harrison Forman's book Changing China. Caption: Buddhism teaches the negation of...
My soldiers Fu& Ssu, at Chin-tz'o temple. Shansi [Shanxi].The Confucius Reflection upon Religious St...
Print 1045 c1: Legendary official. Print 1045 c2: A god in a village temple. Print 1045 c3: Villag...
Print 1037: Carved wood shrine in Confucian temple. In a Confucian temple a shrine to which respect...
The Song-Yuan period was a crucial time in the formation and circulation of several kinds of visual ...
Forman 1041 c1: Confucian scholar. Forman 1040 c2: Temple god.China: Lanchow [Lanzhou] Moslems [Mus...
Print 1031: Ancestor worship. China.Lanchow [Lanzhou], Nantow [Nantou, Taiwan] and China sheepThe p...
The sacred landscape of imperial China was dotted with Buddhist monasteries, Daoist temples, shrines...
Butter gods'These figures sometimes fifteen to twenty feet high are sculptured in colored butter for...
Print 1041 c1: Legendary official with bodyguard. Print c2: Warrior gods in a village temple.China:...
One of the many thousands of tiny towns in north China. A bit too small for a sizable wall; but the...