Yulin-Grotten

The Yulin Grottoes (Chinese 榆林 窟, Pinyin Yulin ku, English Yulin Grottoes / Ten-Thousand Buddha Gorge / Caves of the Myriad Buddhas) 75 km southwest of Anxi (安西县), d. H. the present-day Guazhou (瓜州 县), Gansu Province, China, are Buddhist cave temples.

The site is also known as the "Ten Thousand Buddha Gorge" (万佛 峡, WānFóxiá, Wan Fo Hsia), where "Tenth-thousand Buddha Gorge" (WanFoxia) is to be understood as a locus. The caves are cut into the rock on the western and eastern sides of the valley, with thirteen caves on the eastern bank, eleven on the west bank.

The earliest dates date back to the pre-Tang Dynasty, the latest from the Manchu dynasty. Most of the murals and statues date from the Tang and Song Dynasties, and some from the time of the Western Xia (Xia) and Mongol period. In their structure and artistic style, they resemble the Mogao Grotto in Dunhuang.

The site was explored by Aurel Stein (1907) and Langdon Warner (1925, on the second Fogg Museum Expedition).

The Yulin grottoes have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-36) since 1961. Edit source text Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext

40.05915495.936136Koordinaten: 40 ° 3'33 "N, 95 ° 56'10" W

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