Yongquan Monastery (涌泉寺 Kushan Monastery), Drum Mountain, Fuzhou (福州)

Yongquan Monastery (涌泉寺 Kushan Monastery), Drum Mountain, Fuzhou (福州)

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os05-120. Photo from an album (UoB reference Os05) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference MS 380 876/5). No caption in the album for this photo of a Chinese monastery in a rocky valley with Chinese inscriptions on rocks & stonework and on a sign on the building. Kushan (Ku-shan-shih; Gushan) monastery, also known in English as the Monastery of the Bubbling (or Boiling) Spring. John Thomson took a similar view. See also Sw13-143.

Location

Fuzhou

Estimated Date

1890s

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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