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Encyclopedia > Stele Forest

Stele Forest (碑林; pinyin: Bēilín), aka Xi'an Stele Forest Museum or Xi'an Beilin Museum, is a museum for steles and stone sculptures which is located in Xi'an, China. Its name comes from its huge collection of steles, reminiscent of a forest.


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Forest of Stone Steles Museum Xian (6537 words)
Shitai Xiaojing (stele engraved with the Canon of Filial Piety) and Kaicheng Shijing (steles engraved with the Confucian Classics) of the Tang Dynasty were originally kept in the Imperial Academy in Wu Ben District of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty (in the vicinity of the present Wen Yi Street, southern Xi'an).
The Incomplete stele of Sima Fang of the Jin Dynasty
This stele was unearthed in the western suburb of Xi'an in 1945 and moved to the Forest of Steles in 1949.
Stele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (325 words)
Stele is also a concept in plant biology.
An informative stele of Tiglath-Pileser III is preserved in the British Museum.
A Buddhist Stele from China, Northern Wei period, built in the early 6th century.
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