This piece belongs to the long-running Chinese Buddhist Culture gold series, which the People's Bank of China has issued periodically since 1993. The 2024 installment continues a tradition that has cycled through major sites and iconographic themes across China's Buddhist traditions — Theravada, Mahayana, and Tibetan — making the series as much a doctrinal survey as a numismatic one.
This piece belongs to the long-running Chinese Buddhist Culture gold series, which the People's Bank of China has issued periodically since 1993. The 2024 installment continues a tradition that has cycled through major sites and iconographic themes across China's Buddhist traditions — Theravada, Mahayana, and Tibetan — making the series as much a doctrinal survey as a numismatic one.