The Southern Cliff Buddhist Sculptures, also known as Nankan Grottoes, is a tourist attraction in Bazhong, Sichuan, China. The site is known for its 179 carved grottos which house almost 2,700 painted
Southern Cliff sculptures
Halo (religious iconography)
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A halo, also called a nimbus, aureole, glory or gloriole, is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religion
Standing Buddha with a halo, 1st–2nd century AD (or earlier), Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara
Octadrachm of Ptolemy III
Coin of Indo-Greek king Menander II (90–85 BCE), displaying Nike with a halo on the reverse
Muhammad leads Abraham, Moses, Jesus and others in prayer. Persian miniature, 15th century