Zeng Zhang Tianwang (增长天王), Four Heavenly Kings Hall, Longhua Temple, Shanghai (上海)

Collection

Identifier

JM01-001

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University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: JM01-001. One of four Great Heavenly King statues in the Four Heavenly Kings Hall. Zeng Zhang Tianwang, King of the South and ruler of wind. See GJ01-078, JM01-002, JM01-003 and JM04-140 (same figure in bomb damaged temple in 1937).

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The Temple of Lungwha These two Gods are two of the four which make up the ["Sz Ting Gwu"] four Golden Gods. Owing to bad light and bad position, it was impossible to take the other two Gods. The God of Wind