The sacred Mount Tai ('shan' means 'mountain') was the object ... Inscriptions include the Han Dynasty stelae of Zhang Qian, Heng Fang and Madam Jin Sun; the Valley of Inscribed Buddhist Scriptures ...

but it is regarded as the "First of the Five Sacred Mountains." The magnificent Temple to the God of Taishan (Daimiao) at the foot of the mountain houses a forest of stelae, commemorative tablets ...

The organizational and technological skills of the Aksumites were represented by the construction of stelae (singular: stela). These monuments were created in line of older African traditions and made ...