Inscription for Buddha's footprint found
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-08 09:23

An inscription on a stone bearing a copy of Buddha's footprint has been confirmed by the Cultural Relic and Travel Bureau of Tongchuan City in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

The 35-centimeter-long, 25-centimeter-wide and 10-centimeter-tall relic, with 24 Chinese characters on it, was confirmed as bearing the handwriting of Xuan Zang, a noted Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), according to the bureau.

It is said that the Buddha once left his footprint on a stone in his hometown before his death. Xuan Zang made a copy back during a pilgrimage for Buddhist scriptures in India.

The monk engaged a skilled stone carver to duplicate the footprint for the Yuhua Palace and personally inscribed the stone 1,400 years ago.

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