Baisha Mural

The Baisha Mural is located in the Baisha Village on the plain north of Lijiang. the mural was made from 1385 to 1619, employing the eclectic artist energies of Chines Daoist, Tibetan and Naxi Buddhists and local dongba shamans. This rich fusion had resulted in a tremendously powerful art, heavy in spirit and awe-inspiring in its presentation of the mystical world. Dominated by black, silver, dark green, gold and red colours, the murals in the back hall, overlaid with centuries of brown soot, are doomladen and bizarre, the scenes and figures, some still vivid in detail, are largely taken from Tibetan Buddhist iconography and include the wheel of life, judges of the underworld, the damned, titans and gods, Buddhas and bodhisattvas. There are trigrams, lotus flowers and even Sanskrit inscriptions on the ceiling. The deliberate damage done to the paintings is apparent and terrible, but the loss of the irreplaceable wooden statuary that filled the temple, of which there is no trace, is even more tragic.

Lijiang Tour Sights

	Lijiang
	Lugu Lake and Mosuo People
	Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
	Tiger Leaping Gorge
	First Bend of Yangtze River
	Ancient Naxi Music
	Jade Spring Park
	Baisha Mural
	Lijiang Jade Dragon Golf
	Yufeng Lamasery
	Dongba Culture

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