太原永寧寺明代壁畫阿彌陀佛四十八願圖像考察=A Study of The Representations of Amitabha’s Forty-eight Vows in The wall Paintings of Ming Dynasty in Yongning Monastery,Taiyuan,Shanxi Province
As the only known historical remains of such kind of mural arts to date,the representation of Amitabha’s Forty-eight Vows in Ming Dynasty in Yongning Temple,Taiyuan, which was contributed financially by the monks and laymen from Taiyuan County and Taigu County,greatly enrich the content of the Chinese Buddhist Art History as the result of the popularity of the western pure land faith and the emphasis upon self-cultivation practice of Buddhism in Ming Dynasty.Drawn and designed on the basis of the interpretation in Chapter 6"Amitabha’s Forty-eight Vows"from Sukhavativyuha vol.1 collated and compiled by Wang Rixiu of South Song Dynasty,it is ranked among the rare mural arts with the combination of landscape painting skills and figure painting techniques.
