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Nine-storied building
It is said that there was a monk of strong
will and noble character, named Le Zun, in a worn out kasaya,
with a monk's staff in hand, arrived at the Mingsha Hill in a
day of 336 AD. He saw the majesty and magnificence of the hill
and Daquan River in the sunshine. | |
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Buddha Cave 130
He saw the hill seemed to be like a big Buddha
sleeping there, and there was numerous golden rays shining
over it. He was surprised and said "This is a Holy Land! A
good place for practicing Buddhism!" And he decided to build
grottoes, statues and fescoes in them there. The Grottoes were
built one after another from then on. | |
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Frescoes
Bodhisattva
Frescoes are the most important part of the
Dunhuang art works. They are painted on the walls and ceilings
of the grottoes. There are over 50000m2 of the frescoes kept
in Dunhuang Grottoes. The largest among them is of over
40m2. | |
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Frescoes
Bodhisattva
They show the Buddhist sutra's content and
social look more widely and fully than the scultures and stone
tablets do since they are made not so difficultly as the stone
works and easy to show the details. | |
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Frescoes
Cave 112
The frescoes were continuously made from the
Later LIang Dynasty (907 A.D.) to the Yuan Dynasty (1368
A.D.). Often, they show the donors who built the
grottoes. | |
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Frescoes
Cave 465
Tantric art whose explicit sexual portrayals
have been deemed too corrupting for the public to
view. | |
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Colored sculptur
Cave 194
They are over 3000 colored left. Among them
are over 2000 sculptures proper and 1000 sculptures in good
conditions, and the rest are repainted or repaired and lost
the original look partly. | |
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Colored sculptur
Cave 259 | |
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Colored sculptur
Cave 319 | |
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Colored sculptur
Cave 328 | |
