兩件夏侯純陀造像的信仰、風格與源流探究 - 甘肅館藏佛教造像研究之五=A Study on the Faith, Style, and Origin of the Two Stelae Made by Xiahou Cunda - A Study on the Buddhist Steles of Gansu（Ⅴ）
Both Gansu Provincial Museum and Xi’an Beilin Museum have a Buddhist-image stele made in the fourth year of the Tianhe era during the Northern Zhou dynasty. The votive texts of both stelae are the same, indicating that they were made by the same person. The front of the former stele shows the image of a standing Avalokitesvara where as the second is a four-sided stele with carved images of the Buddha, Buddha’s disciples, Bodhisattvas, and donors. The figures depicted by these two artifacts bears witness to the style of Buddhist imagery in the Tianhe era. A study on these two stelae suggests that they should have derived from the area of what is currently Yao County in Weibei, Shanxi Province.
