Daxiangshan Grottoes

The Daxiangshan Grottoes ( Chinese 大像山石窟 , Pinyin Dàxiàngshān Shiku , English Daxiangshan Grottoes ) in the district of Gangu , prefecture-level city of Tianshui , Province of Gansu , China, a Buddhist are cave temple , the high for its over 23 m Colossus one with a mustache provided Buddha Shakyamuni is known from the time of the Northern Wei to Tang Dynasty . The Buddha figure consists of a stone core that has been modeled over with clay (Shitai nisheng Foxiang 石胎泥塑佛像).

The cave temples of Shuiliandong (水帘洞, Wushan County ) and Daxiangshan have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China in Gansu (5-469) since 2001 .

literature

Claudia Wenzel: Hope for immortality in the Pure Land of the West: the temple monastery of the Great Buddha of the Immeasurable Life Dafosi near Binxian, Shaanxi. Heidelberg, Univ., Dissertation 2001 ( online )
Dong Yuxiang & Yue Banghu (eds.): Bingling Si deng shiku diaosu [sculptures from the Bingling Si grotto and other temples]. Beijing, Renmin Meishu Chubanshe 1988; ISBN 7-102-00201-7 ( Zhongguo meishu quanji : Diaosu bian; 9)