Do you know where is the earliest and largest group of grotto statues in southern China? It is the Thousand Buddha Cliffs in Qixia Temple, Qixia Mountain, Nanjing.
Qianfo Cliff
Someone may want to say that the statue group in Feilai Peak in Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou is also very early, and isn’t it very large in scale? Yes, Hangzhou was very early, but it was slightly later than the Qianfo Cliff in Nanjing. Hangzhou Feilai Peak was built during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periods and was completed during the Song and Yuan dynasties. The most exquisite one belongs to the Dadu Maitreya, which is particularly beautiful.
Qianfo Cliff
Nanjing Qianfo Rock was first built in the Southern and Northern Dynasties Southern Qi during the Yongming period. At that time, there was a hermit named Ming Seng Shao who lived on Qixia Mountain. He believed in Buddhism very much and placed his house as a temple, so he found Qixia Temple .
Thousand Buddha Cliffs
Legend One night he dreamed of Tathagata Buddha light, so he vowed to practice the Buddha statue on Qixia Mountain in Nanjing, but before the Buddha statue was built, he died of illness. In order to fulfill his father's last wish, his son finally built a Buddha statue of the Three Saints of the West on the west side of the desert peak of Qixia Mountain in , which was very exquisite and spectacular.
Thousand Buddha Cliff
Since then, the nobles of Qi and Liang generations have fought to build Buddha statues again, and finally formed more than 200 caves and more than 500 Thousand Buddha Cliffs, known as Yungang, Jiangnan, which is 17 years earlier than the Longmen Buddha in Luoyang . In terms of number, the statue group in Feilai Peak in Hangzhou is more than 400, and in terms of number, more than 500 statues in Qianfo Cliff. In terms of age, one is the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the other is the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, so it is larger in scale and earlier. #Telebrity Creation Challenge#
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