Qinglong Temple, Yuncheng | The Disappeared Shaving Picture of the King of Langqia

|The Disappeared Shaving Picture of the King of Langqia. Qinglong Temple in Jishan County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, was built in the second year of Longshuo in the Tang Dynasty (662 AD). After being rebuilt many times during the wars at the end of the Jin Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it finally became an ancient temple with a long history.
The shaving picture of Fanmoyue at the lower left corner of the west wall of the main hall of the temple. The Buddhist scriptures once described that when Maitreya Bodhisattva came to the human world from the Tushita Heaven, he was born in the country ruled by the King of Langqia, with Fanmoyue as his mother. Later, Maitreya Bodhisattva became a monk and became a Buddha, and the King of Langqia and Fanmoyue also shaved their heads. Scholars speculate that the destroyed part of the mural on the right side of the west wall is the shaving picture of the King of Langqia, but it is no longer visible. This theme also appears in the Yuan Dynasty mural "Maitreya Buddha Meeting Picture" in the back hall of Xinghua Temple in Jishan, Shanxi, which is now in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
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Post by Samuel McKay41 | Jan 5, 2025