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Adam Smith
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Assoc. Curator, Penn Museum
Views are mine, not my employer's
UK (1970-1993)
PRC (1993-2001)
US (2001-)
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From a post on Twitter by Maxim Persikov (Panates).
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October 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The murals are approximately contemporary with the famous Yuan and early Ming murals from Henan and Southern Shanxi, many of which are in US collections, including the Penn Museum. The Medicine Buddha and Twelve Divine Generals subject occurs in both.
October 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Paste code from here: bbchallenge.org/1RB1RA_1RC1R...
... into this: turingmachine.io
... and chant a buddha-name with each state transition.
September 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Untold Unspeakably Unspeakables of the Avatamsaka Sutra have got nothing on BB(6).

archive.org/details/TheF...
September 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Congratulations!
September 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Huadan has the title 副县级驻寺指导员 Deputy County Level Monastery Resident Political Instructor, connected with the "Strengthen the Villages to Lead the Monasteries" 强村带寺 program, a component of the "Make Religion Chinese" 宗教中国化 and "Use Law to Rule Tibet" 依法治藏 policies. (DeepSeek.)
Adam Smith on X: "“If this inscription is actually fake, I'd happily honor the forger as my teacher." 如果此刻石真是作伪,我倒愿意拜作伪者为师。 Fighting words from Liu Zhao 劉釗, Director of the Center for Excavated Texts and Palaeography at Fudan). https://t.co/zxKHlyvLpd https://t.co/wyS2N39r1Y" / X
“If this inscription is actually fake, I'd happily honor the forger as my teacher." 如果此刻石真是作伪,我倒愿意拜作伪者为师。 Fighting words from Liu Zhao 劉釗, Director of the Center for Excavated Texts and Palaeography at Fudan). https://t.co/zxKHlyvLpd https://t.co/wyS2N39r1Y
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July 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
His colleague Huadan [sp?] (R) says he heard about it in 2016, and saw it with his own eyes in 2019.

By my count, this weird inscription has been "discovered" at least four times.

www.nbd.com.cn/articles/202...

www.wenxuecity.com/news/2025/07...
“昆仑石刻”,有牧民称40年前曾见过 | 每经网
www.nbd.com.cn
July 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM