Buddhism spread from India to northwestern China during the 1st century, then outward from the centrally located city of Luoyang, which was China’s capital at the time. This vessel, made in a coastal southern province, places Buddha figures in a two-tiered Chinese setting. The absence of a removable lid reflects the vessel’s symbolic purpose. Four pairs of figures, separated by grain storage jars, kneel in devotion on the upper level. The lower has five seated Buddhas and two openings covered by a roof supported by dragon-form que gates. Que gates or pillars were used for palaces, city gates, entrance doors, and tombs. In Sichuan Province, the pillars signaled the soul’s entrance into the spirit world, but here they suggest passage to the Buddha’s paradise. The inclusion of the Buddha image on this funerary urn, together with Chinese devotees and architectural elements, demonstrates the geographic extent of the faith at the end of the 3rd century.