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Inscription for Buddha's footprint found
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-08 09:23 An inscription on a stone
bearing a copy of Buddha's footprint has been confirmed by the Cultural Relic
and Travel Bureau of Tongchuan City in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The 35-centimeter-long, 25-centimeter-wide and 10-centimeter-tall relic, with
24 Chinese characters on it, was confirmed as bearing the handwriting of Xuan
Zang, a noted Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), according to the
bureau.
It is said that the Buddha once left his footprint on a stone in his hometown
before his death. Xuan Zang made a copy back during a pilgrimage for Buddhist
scriptures in India.
The monk engaged a skilled stone carver to duplicate the footprint for the
Yuhua Palace and personally inscribed the stone 1,400 years ago.
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