Monday, February 19, 2007

Welcome at Yungang, Shanxi

Beautiful Buddhist paintings on the walls of the grottoes

The wonderful Yungang Grottoes, which are at the World Heritage List of Unesco, are a collection of shallow caves.

Within these grottoes, there are beautiful paintings on the walls and the ceilings, and over 50,000 carved images and statues of Buddhas and Boddhisatvas, ranging from 4 centimeters to 7 meters tall. Most of these icons are around 1000 years old.
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