Where is Yungang Grottoes?

Yungang Grottoes are located at the southern foot of Wuzhou Mountain, 17 kilometers west of Datong City, Shanxi Province, north of China. . This Shanxi "business card" has great attraction for tourists from all over the country and even the world.

According to historical records, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was in power when he was young, and his grandmother Feng Taihou was "listening to the government at the time". At that time, people called them "Two Emperors" or "Two Saints" as Yungang Grottoes built by the royal family. The large-scale double grottoes that appeared in this period were actually symbols of imperial power at that time.

A black inscription above the east wall of Yungang Cave 11 is "The Statue of Taihe Seven Years", which is the earliest existing inscription of Wei Bei in Yungang Cave. The tablet is rectangular, 78 cm long and 37 cm high, with a full text of 336 words. It records the deeds of 54 good men and women who studied Buddha's righteousness manager in Pingcheng, Kyoto in the seventh year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty, "for the good fortune of the country, they respect the image of the stone temple and the bodhisattvas."

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Introduction of Cave 17 and Cave 18 in Yungang

Cave 17 in Yungang is oval in plan and has a dome top. Maitreya Bodhisattva presented in front of us is the best Buddha statue in Yungang Grottoes. It is as high as 15.5 meters and occupies a large space in the cave.

The 18 caves in Yungang, where the main Buddha Sakyamuni is 15.5 meters high, are exquisitely carved and vivid. More classic, there are countless Buddha statues with rich expressions and different shapes and spirits carved on the cassock of the giant Buddha. According to the investigation, among the statues at home and abroad, there is only one cassock with such a scale, which belongs to Yungang's treasures.

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