Di Guangshou makes stone thinking image

[Di Guangshou’s Stone Making Thought]

Di Guangshou’s Stone Making Thought, the second year of Xinghe in the Eastern Wei Dynasty (540), is 59 cm high.
The Thoughtful Bodhisattva has a smile on his face, a rectangular face, a treasure crown on his head, and a round head. Sit on the round pier with half legs, leaning forward slightly. Support your right elbow on your knee, hold the long stem bud in your hand, and support your face with your forefinger. The left arm is incomplete, and the left hand holds the foot. The bodhisattva was wearing a skirt with two layers of embossed back curved folds on the skirt hem, and the leg skirt pleats were single hooked and the female line was “U” shaped. Under the round pier, a round paved lotus flower is laid, and under the round pier is a rectangular stone base. The inscription on the back of the stone seat reads: “Da Fa (Dai) Xinghe was two years old and kissed (Xin) Chou on the 23rd day of the second day of the second lunar month of Gengshan, and Di Guangshouyang, a disciple of the Qing Dynasty Buddhist faith, built the Yusiwei area (body) for the examination of the death, wishing the death to be examined in the Jingmiao land, the family members of the whole family, always living in wealth, and the seven generations of the same, and the physical and the same, as the wish. It is like the monk scene of the former Pingxiang residence of the Lord.”
This figure is beautiful, motionless and static, showing the attitude of the Buddha’s meditation, with a clear chronological record, and of high artistic and historical value
Unearthed at the Xiude Temple site in Quyang, Hebei in 1954