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    The Stele Forest or Beilin Museum is a museum for steles and stone sculptures in Beilin District in Xi'an, Northwest China. The museum, which is housed...
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  • on the stele. Buried in 845, probably during religious suppression, the stele was not rediscovered until 1625. It is now in the Stele Forest in Xi'an...
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    A stele (/ˈstiːli/ STEE-lee), from Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the...
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    numerous Tang dynasty pagodas and is noted for its history museum and its stele forest, which is housed in an 11th-century Confucian temple containing large...
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    famous stone reliefs Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum are exhibited in the Stele Forest Museum of Xi'an (4 steeds) and Museum of the University of Pennsylvania...
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    maritime connections between China and other foreign states. The stele is now in the Stele Forest or Beilin Museum (碑林; pinyin: Bēilín) in Xi'an, China. The...
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  • commemorative purposes. Stele may also refer to: See the list at Stele Stele Forest, a museum for steles in Xi'an, China Veronica Stele (born 1977), Argentine...
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    The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha...
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    Chang'an Flower Drum Tower Giant Wild Goose Pagoda Small Wild Goose Pagoda Stele Forest Xingjiao Temple Banpo Qianling Mausoleum Tang West Market Museum Culture...
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    characters engraved double-sided on 114 stone tablets, are preserved in the Stele Forest Museum in Xi'an, China. Widely regarded as the world's heaviest books...
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    stele was unearthed in Xi'an in 1625, it, too, was put on the back of a tortoise. In 1907, this so-called Xi'an Stele was moved to the Stele Forest Museum...
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    Chang'an Flower Drum Tower Giant Wild Goose Pagoda Small Wild Goose Pagoda Stele Forest Xingjiao Temple Banpo Qianling Mausoleum Tang West Market Museum Culture...
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    The methods are likely similar to calligraphy stele or 碑 bēi, such as can be found in Xi'an's Stele Forest. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cliff...
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    Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. It is named after the well-known Xi'an Stele Forest, and Small Wild Goose Pagoda is also located in the district. The smallest...
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    Statue of Guan Ping in the Stele Forest in Beilin District, Xi'an...
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    state as its diplomatic equal. The Song created an extensive defensive forest along the Song-Liao border to thwart potential Khitan cavalry attacks. The...
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  • Shaanxi province, China, so named after the Bēilín (Stele Forest) museum located there Stele Forest (碑林; pinyin: Bēilín), a museum in Beilin District,...
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    first introduced in China a millennium earlier. The stele with the maps is now in the Stele Forest or Beilin Museum (碑林; Bēilín) in Xi'an, China. The expansion...
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    Chang'an Flower Drum Tower Giant Wild Goose Pagoda Small Wild Goose Pagoda Stele Forest Xingjiao Temple Banpo Qianling Mausoleum Tang West Market Museum Culture...
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    eleven-page document in the Jurchen script in the base of a stele in Xi'an's Stele Forest museum. This manuscript, containing 237 lines of Jurchen script...
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    Chang'an Flower Drum Tower Giant Wild Goose Pagoda Small Wild Goose Pagoda Stele Forest Xingjiao Temple Banpo Qianling Mausoleum Tang West Market Museum Culture...
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    University of Pennsylvania, USA. The remaining four are exhibited in the Stele Forest museum of Xi'an. One of the reliefs, very likely after a drawing by Yan...
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    ordered to translate”. In addition to these, we have the Xian's Stele Forest [stone stele] dated to 672 CE, Hongfu Temple’s [another temple where Tripitaka...
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    Rubbing of Kui Xing stele (with the 鰲 ao turtle and a 斗 ladle) at Stele Forest Museum in Xi'an....
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    Chang'an Flower Drum Tower Giant Wild Goose Pagoda Small Wild Goose Pagoda Stele Forest Xingjiao Temple Banpo Qianling Mausoleum Tang West Market Museum Culture...
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    Yangshan Quarry (Chinese: 阳山碑材; pinyin: Yángshān bēi cái; lit. 'Yangshan Stele Material') is an ancient stone quarry near Nanjing, China. Used during many...
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    Stele Forest in Xi'an, where collects many ancient steles from Chang'an Guozijian of the Tang dynasty...
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    Chang'an Flower Drum Tower Giant Wild Goose Pagoda Small Wild Goose Pagoda Stele Forest Xingjiao Temple Banpo Qianling Mausoleum Tang West Market Museum Culture...
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  • Scenic Area 2015 Shaanxi Baoji Mount Taibai 2016 Shaanxi Xi'an Xi'an City Wall and Stele Forest 2018 Shaanxi Yan'an Yan'an Revolutionary Scenic Area 2019...
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