Thousand Buddha Mountain

The Thousand Buddha Mountain is a slope found southeast of the city of Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, China. It is prestigious for its ious Buddha pictures which have been cut out of the slope's shake faces or detached structures erect since the seasons of the Sui Dynasty 581-618 and its Xingguochan Temple. The Thousand-Buddha Cliff is situated on the northern flank of the slope behind the Xingguochan Temple. The foot of the bluff is punctured by five holes, which are named from west to east: Longquan Dragon Spring Cave, Jile Extremely Happy Cave, Qianlou likely a man's name Cave, and Luzhu most likely a man's name Cave. The caverns' stature ranges from 3 meters down to just 20 centimeters.

Around 130 Buddha statues which were cut into Thousand-Buddha Cliff amid the Sui time frame remain today. The Jile Cave houses 16 Buddha statues, the tallest of which is 3 m high. Alongside the Buddha statues, sanctuaries and different structures were raised on the slope. The most eminent of these structures is the Xingguochan Temple which was initially worked amid the rule of Emperor Taizhong of Tang as a development of the Sui-Dynasty Qianfo Temple. Encourage augmentations were attempted amid the Song Dynasty, yet the sanctuary was decimated by war subsequently. Revamping was embraced in 1468, amid the Ming Dynasty. The Guanying Hall, the Foye Hall, and the Thousand-Hands Buddha statue were included amid the Qing Dynasty.