Huigen brought jade Buddha statues from Burma to Shanghai

E212073

Buddhist legend founding legend religious narrative

Huigen brought jade Buddha statues from Burma to Shanghai is a founding legend recounting how a monk transported sacred jade Buddha images from Burma to China, inspiring the establishment of Shanghai’s Jade Buddha Temple.

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Label	Occurrences
Huigen brought jade Buddha statues from Burma to Shanghai canonical	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Buddhist legend ⓘ founding legend ⓘ religious narrative ⓘ
associatedCountry	China ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ
associatedPlace	Myanmar ⓘ surface form: Burma Jade Buddha Temple ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ
associatedReligion	Buddhism ⓘ
associatedTradition	Chinese Buddhism ⓘ Theravada ⓘ surface form: Theravada Buddhism
category	Buddhist miracle story ⓘ Chinese temple founding legend ⓘ
culturalContext	Shanghai urban religious culture ⓘ
describesAction	Huigen transporting jade Buddha statues from Burma to Shanghai ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Huigen ⓘ
function	founding story of Jade Buddha Temple ⓘ
hasSubject	Buddhist images ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ surface form: Burma Jade Buddha Temple ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ jade Buddha statues ⓘ
inspiredCreationOf	Jade Buddha Temple ⓘ
involvesMaterial	jade ⓘ
involvesObject	jade Buddha statues ⓘ reclining Buddha image ⓘ seated Buddha image ⓘ
involvesPerson	Buddhist monk ⓘ Huigen ⓘ
languageOfNarration	Chinese ⓘ
mainCharacter	Huigen ⓘ
motif	pious monk as culture bearer ⓘ sacred image brought from afar ⓘ
narrativeLocationFrom	Myanmar ⓘ surface form: Burma
narrativeLocationTo	Shanghai ⓘ
narrativeOutcome	establishment of a temple to house the jade Buddhas ⓘ
relatedTo	Jade Buddha Temple founding history ⓘ cult of jade Buddha images in Shanghai ⓘ
religiousSignificance	explains origin of sacred images at Jade Buddha Temple ⓘ
theme	devotion to Buddha ⓘ transnational spread of Buddhism ⓘ transport of sacred relics ⓘ
timeFrame	late 19th century ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Huigen brought jade Buddha statues from Burma to Shanghai
Description of subject: Huigen brought jade Buddha statues from Burma to Shanghai is a founding legend recounting how a monk transported sacred jade Buddha images from Burma to China, inspiring the establishment of Shanghai’s Jade Buddha Temple.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jade Buddha Temple → foundingLegend → Huigen brought jade Buddha statues from Burma to Shanghai ⓘ