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Portable Shrine This portable shrine in the shape of a palatial hall is decorated with images from the Buddhist pantheon on all of its surfaces. The construction and materials are lavish: a wooden base provides support for the gilt-bronze interior and front panels, the inscribed silver side and rear exterior panels, and a brilliantly patinated bronze roof, whose blue-green color is perhaps meant to suggest celadon tiles. The central images that would have been placed in the shrine are now lost. In its shape and overall decoration of symbolic images, this small shrine serves not only as a focus for worship but also as an architectural space representing the Buddhist cosmos. |
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