Dafosi grottoes
The Dafosi Grottoes ( Chinese 大 佛寺 石窟 , Pinyin Dàfósì shíkū , English Great Buddhist Temple Grottoes / Grotto Temple of the Great Buddha , "Grottoes in the Temple of the Great Buddha") is a cave temple complex ten kilometers east of the independent city of Binzhou in the Chinese province of Shaanxi .
The monastery was established in the early years of the Tang Dynasty in the Tang Taizong era or earlier. It consists of 107 rock caves with numerous shrines and a total of almost 1500 sculptures . In the cave of the Great Buddha ( Amitabha ) alone , around 1000 images have been preserved, the largest measuring 27 meters, the smallest 2 centimeters.
The Dafosi Grottoes have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (3–49) since 1988, and since 2014 they have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site entitled Silk Roads: the Road Network of the Chang'an Tianshan Corridor .
literature
- Angelika Borchert: The Great Buddha of Dafosi = The Great Buddha of Dafosi. Lipp, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87490-648-5 (workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation 82)
- Qing Chang 常青: Binxian Dafosi zaoxiang yishu (Iconic Art of Great Buddha Temple in Binxian). Xiandai Chubanshe, Beijing 1998, ISBN 7800284441
- Michael Petzet (ed.): The great Buddha of Dafosi. Workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Volume 82, Munich 1996
- Claudia Wenzel: Hope for Immortality in the Pure Land of the West. The Temple Monastery of the Great Buddha of the Immeasurable Life Dafosi at Binxian, Shaanxi. (Dissertation) University of Heidelberg 2001 ( Online, PDF )
- Zhongguo da baike quanshu : Wenwu. Bowoguan. Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, Beijing 1993 (Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Volume of Cultural Assets. Museums)
Individual evidence
- ^ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 7, 2019 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 4 ′ 19 ″ N , 107 ° 59 ′ 37 ″ E