Cave Church,
Buddhist cave temples
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(n.y.): Dazu grottoes, Foreign Languages Press : Distributed by China International Book Trading Corp. (Guoji Shudian); 1st ed. edition
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| Location: | near the city of Chongqing |
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Cave Church,
Buddhist cave temples
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| Bibliography: |
Angela Falco Howard (2001):
Summit of Treasures: Buddhist Cave Sculpture of Dazu, China,
Weatherhill; 1st edition (December 2001), hardcover, 240pp, ISBN: 0834804271 amazon.com
(n.y.): Dazu grottoes, Foreign Languages Press : Distributed by China International Book Trading Corp. (Guoji Shudian); 1st ed. edition amazon.com
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| Address: | Dazu Grottoes, Tel: +86-, Fax: +86-, |
| Last update: | $Date: 2008/10/09 18:24:50 $ |
| 650 | oldest inscriptions. | |
| 12th century | during the Song Dynasty, a Buddhist monk named Zhao Zhifeng dedicated 70 years of work on the elaborate sculptures and carvings on Mount Baoding. | |
| 1999 | listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. |
Dazu Rock Carvings are 75 protected sites containing some 50,000 statues, with over 100,000 Chinese characters forming inscriptions and epigraphs.
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