Yungang Grottoes

The Yungang Grottoes, formerly the Wuzhoushan Grottoes, are ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes near the city of Datong in the province of Shanxi. They are phenomenal cases of shake cut engineering and one of the three most acclaimed antiquated Buddhist sculptural destinations of China. The others are Longmen and Mogao. The site is situated around 16 km west of the city of Datong, in the valley of the Shi Li stream at the base of the Wuzhou Shan mountains. They are an extraordinary case of the Chinese stone carvings from the fifth and sixth hundreds of years. There are 53 noteworthy caverns, alongside 51,000 specialties lodging a similar number of Buddha statues.

Furthermore, there are around 1,100 minor hollows. A Ming Dynasty-time stronghold is as yet situated over the precipice lodging the Yungang Grottoes. The grottoes were exhumed in the south face of a sandstone precipice around 2600 feet long and 30 to 60 feet high. In 2001, the Yungang Grottoes were influenced an UNESCO World Heritage To site. The Yungang Grottoes are considered by UNESCO to be a "gem of early Chinese Buddhist give in workmanship speak to the fruitful combination of Buddhist religious emblematic craftsmanship from south and focal Asia with Chinese social conventions, beginning in the fifth century CE under Imperial support.