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The five leaves represent the five Buddhas: Vairocana (centre), Aksobhya (east), Ratnasambhava (south), Amitabha (west) and Amogha (north). The Tibetan characters are probably invocations. Qing emperors were not  monotheists. Besides performing the official sacrifices to Heaven, Earth and ancestors they also erected temples within the Forbidden City where Buddhist and Daoist deities were worshipped. It has been suggested that the Qing rulers sanctioned Tibetan Buddhism as a means of winning the goodwill of the Mongolian and Tibetan nobilities.","physicalDescription":"Dish of porcelain decorated in doucai colours of red, green, yellow and aubergine overglaze enamels and underglaze blue. In the centre is a flowerhead, around which are five leaf-like patterns linked by a chain. Tibetan characters are placed between the leaf-like patterns and round the rim. The same decoration is repeated on the back of the dish. 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