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Yinshan Rock Paintings [2] or Rock Paintings of Yinshan Mountains [3] (simplified Chinese: 阴山岩画; traditional Chinese: 陰山岩畫; pinyin: Yīnshān Yánhuà), also known as Petroglyphs in the Yinshan Mountains [4] or Rock Paintings of Yinshan Mountain, [5] are images carved into the rocks of the Yin Mountains and are widely distributed, [6] mainly on the cliffs of Wolf Mountain in ...
Most of the pagodas built during the Liao dynasty are octagonal, solid pagodas made out of brick and stone, with multiple tiers of closely spaced eaves. Important examples of Liao pagodas in Beijing include the Tiankai pagoda (erected c.1110), the Yunju pagoda (erected c. 1118). and the Tianning pagoda (erected c. 1120).
Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Daqingshan. The Yin Mountains, also known by its Chinese name as the Yin Shan or Yinshan and by various romanizations of the Daqing Mountains, are mountains in the Eastern Gobi Desert steppe of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China. [ 1] The Yellow River borders the mountains to the south. [ 2][ 1]
1119-1120. The Tianning Temple (simplified Chinese: 天 宁 寺; traditional Chinese: 天 寧 寺; pinyin: Tiānníng Sì) is a Buddhist temple complex located in Xicheng District of Beijing, in northern China. The temple contains the 12th-century Pagoda of Tianning Temple. The 8 sided pagoda is of the Liao Dynasty, built from around 1100 to ...
During the first millennia of imperial rule, Beijing was a provincial city in northern China. Its stature grew in the 10th to the 13th centuries when the nomadic Khitan and forest-dwelling Jurchen peoples from beyond the Great Wall expanded southward and made the city a capital of their dynasties, the Liao and Jin.
Pagoda Forest at Shaolin Temple refers to the main cemetery for Buddhist monks at the Shaolin Temple under Mount Song. Consisting of about 250 memorial pagodas beneath or in which the ashes of the deceased were placed, the cemetery covers about 21,000 m 2 (5.2 acres). The cemetery is forested. Its name, "tower forest" (Chinese 塔林, Ta Lin)[i ...
Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Xiāngshān Gōngyuán. Wade–Giles. Hsiang-shan Kung-yüan. Fragrant Hills Park[1] or Xiangshan Park (香山公园) is a public park and former imperial garden at the foot of the Western Hills in the Haidian District, Beijing, China. It was also formerly known as Jingyi Garden or "Jingyiyuan" (靜宜園).
The Songshan Buddhist Academy, a modern monastery perched for effect on Lian Tian Feng. "Lofty Mountain". Mount Song (Chinese: 嵩山; pinyin: Sōngshān, "lofty [5] mountain") is an isolated mountain range in north central China's Henan Province, along the southern bank of the Yellow River. It is known in literary and folk tradition as the ...