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Longmen Grottoes Administration, expanded the temple in 2002, by adding the "Belfry, the Drum Tower, the Wing Room, the Hall of Mahavira and Hall of Nine Persons, Eighteen Arhats, the Villa of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling". New additions included board walks, compound wall and a new gate from the southern end of the temple.
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Longmen Grottoes. Longmen Grottoes：The Longmen Grottoes are example of Chinese Buddhist art. The grottoes were carved a few years before 493 AD in Northern Wei Dynasty. It continued to be expanded till the late Qing Dynasty, over 1,400 years. [5] Nowadays, it is located in Longmen Avenue, Luolong District.
Longmen Grottoes: Henan: 2000 1003; i, ii, iii (cultural) The grottoes carved into the sandstone cliffs along the Yi River near the ancient capital of Luoyang contain a vast collection of Buddhist rock carvings and statues. Most date to the late Northern Wei and early Tang dynasties, between the 5th and mid-8th centuries. They represent a high ...
The Longmen Grottoes south of the city were listed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in November 2000. Guanlin—a series of temples built in honor of Guan Yu, a hero of the Three Kingdoms period—is nearby. The White Horse Temple is located 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the modern town.
The Hidden Stream Temple Cave (Chinese: 潜溪寺洞; pinyin: qián xī sì dòng also zhai fu tang) is cave number 20 at the Longmen Grottoes near Luoyang, Henan, China. History [ edit ]
Other sites at the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor are the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang which had already been inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1987, and the Longmen Grottoes, which contain more than 10,000 statues with more than 2,800 inscriptions on them, in Luoyang which had already been inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2000. [13]
Description: World Heritage Site with over 100,000 buddha images carved on cliffs between 490s and c. 900 AD, Luoyang, Henan Province, China. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.