Longmen Grottoes
493 CE – 1127 CE
One of the greatest treasuries of Chinese Buddhist stone sculpture — more than 2,300 caves and niches cut into the limestone cliffs above the Yi River near Luoyang, holding over 100,000 carved images of the Buddha and bodhisattvas produced across four centuries. Begun by the Northern Wei dynasty around 493 CE and reaching its height under the Tang, its colossal Vairocana Buddha at the Fengxian Temple, some 17 metres tall, ranks among the supreme achievements of East Asian religious art.
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