Monk Sengqie - New York City, NY
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N 40° 46.762 W 073° 57.762
18T E 587529 N 4514782
This sculpture is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WMN73K
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/08/2015
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The Museum's website for this piece (
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"Monk Sengqie
Period: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)
Date: late 11th–12th century
Culture: China
Medium: Limestone with pigment
Dimensions: H. 35 in. (88.9 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of Evangeline Zalstem-Zalessky, 1943
Accession Number: 43.114
On view in Gallery 209
This sculpture is a rare representation of Sengqie (act. ca. 660–710), a monk from the western regions who founded a temple in Sizhou (modern Liuhuai, Anhui Province), on the south shore of the Huai River. Popularly known as Sizhou Heshang (The Monk of Sizhou), he was venerated after his death as an incarnation of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Mercy. In Song times he became a cult figure revered for his power to prevent floods."