云岡石窟的英文介紹

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云岡石窟的英文介紹

Yungang Caves, one of China’s four most famous “Buddhist Caves Art

Treasure Hous”, is located about sixteen kilometers west of Datong, Shanxi

Province. There exists 53 caves, most of which are made during the Northern Wei

Dynasty between 460 and 494 AD, and over 51, 000 stone sculptures. It extends

one kilometer from east to west and can be fallen into three major groups.

The first group (including Cave 1, Cave 2, Cave 3 and Cave 4) are at the eastern

end parated from others. Cave 1 and Cave 2 have suffered from rigors of time

and the weather. Cave 3, an afterthought after the Northern Wei Dynasty, is the

largest grotto among Yungang caves.

Tours normally begin from the cond group ranging from Cave 5 to Cave

g art manifests its best in this group. Cave 5 contains a ated Buddha

with a height of 17 meters. In Cave 6, a 15-meter-high two storey pagoda pillar

stands in the center of chamber and the life of the Buddha from birth to the

attainment of nirvana is carved in the pagoda walls and the sides of the cave. The

Bodhisattva was engraved in Cave 7. The rare en Shiva Statue in Yungang with

eight arms and four heads and riding on a bull is illustrated in Cave 8. Cave 9 and

Cave 10 are notable for front pillars and figures bearing musical instruments.

Musicians playing instruments also appear in Cave 12. Cave 13 has the Buddha

statue with a giant figurine supporting its right arm.

The rest caves belong to the third group. Cave 14 has eroded verely. Cave 15

is named as the Cave of Ten Thousand Buddha. The caves numbered 16 to Cave 20

are the oldest complex and each one symbolizes an emperor from the Northern

Wei Dynasty and the subject of “Emperor is the Buddha” is embodied. The caves

from No. 21 onward are built in the later times and can not compare to their better

prerved counterparts.

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