Pujiang (Chengdu)

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Location of Pujiang (pink) in Chengdu (yellow).

Pujiang ( 蒲江县 , Pujiang Xiàn ) is a Chinese county of sub-provincial city of Chengdu , the capital of the province of Sichuan . It has an area of ​​580 km² and has about 260,000 inhabitants.

The Pujiang Grottoes ( Pujiang shiku蒲江 石窟) from the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-853) since 2006 .

literature

  • Angela Falco Howard: Buddhist Sculpture of Pujiang, Sichuan: A Mirror of the Direct Link Between Southwest China and India in High Tang. In: Archives of Asian Art XLII (1989), 49-61.

Coordinates: 30 ° 12 '  N , 103 ° 30'  E