Early Buddhist Sculpture. The Caves of Yungang Located in the Shanxi Province of China Represent early Buddhist art in China. Carved 1500 years ago

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Early Buddhist Sculpture

The Caves of Yungang Located in the Shanxi Province of China Represent early Buddhist art in China. Carved 1500 years ago

Who built the caves? Northern Wei Dynasty ( ) Under Guidance of monk Tan Yao

The Caves of Yungang Yungang consists of: –53 caves –And over 51,000 carvings depicting Buddha and his life

Group #1 Caves #1-4 Cave #3 ure/shanxi/datong/yungang_grottoes/ htm

Group #2 Caves #5-13 Links Cave#5 – htm Picture: G11.htm cave 13

Yungang Caves Entrance to Cave 7

Group #3 Caves #14-53 Caves numbering 16 to Cave 20 are the oldest in this complexes and each one symbolizes an emperor from the Northern Wei Dynasty Emperor is the Buddha Caves #21 and up were built later on and not as impressive.

Cave #20 ( Sakyamuni)

Longmen Caves 100,000 images of Buddha 2345 caves Created during the Northern Wei and Tang dynasties

Where are they?

Why were they Created? The northern Wei Dynasty changed capitals from Datong to Luoyang. The Buddhists needed a closer place to worship.

Fengxian Temple The core of the longmen caves Also called the “eastern Mona Lisa” or the “Mother of China”

Middle Binyang Cave Constructed during Northern Wei Dynasty Constructed from

Lianhua Cave (Lotus Cave) Construction started around 527 The Buddha at the center of the cave measures 15ft

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