The Buddha, main hall, Yongquan Monastery (涌泉寺 Kushan Monastery), Drum Mountain, Fuzhou

The Buddha, main hall, Yongquan Monastery (涌泉寺 Kushan Monastery), Drum Mountain, Fuzhou

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: PF01-46. Photograph by John Thomson. See a scan of Thomson's negative (Wellcome Collection refs: 19516i and 19517i). This monastery, which was much photographed in the nineteenth century, is called the monastery/temple of the bubbling/boiling spring, due to a nearby spring of water.

Location

Fuzhou

Date

1871

Photographer

Thomson, John

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph