Mogao Caves
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The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 500 temples 25 km southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis located at a religious an
Mogao Caves
Mogao Caves
Mogao Caves
Mogao Caves
Yungang Grottoes
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The Yungang Grottoes, formerly the Wuzhoushan Grottoes, are ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes built during the Northern Wei dynasty near the city of Datong, then called Pingcheng, in the provin
Mogao Caves
…be built at the site until the 14th century. The Mogao Caves are the best known of the Chinese Buddhist grottoes and, along with Longmen Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes, are one of the three famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. An important cache of documents was discovered in 1900 in the so-called "Library…
Yungang Grottoes, Datong, China
The panorama of Yungang Grottoes
Cave 9
Top of the column (dougong) in the building protecting the caves of Yungang Grottoes