Chongqing Dazu Rock Carvings
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Dazu Rock Carvings
- Religious cliff carvings from the late Tang and early Song Dynasties, mainly Buddhist themes, with Confucian and Taoist statues displayed together.
- The Dazu Rock Carvings include more than 70 sites with over 100,000 statues, mainly Buddhist, and are a model of late Chinese grotto art.
- Built over 70 years with an overall design and organization, it is a large-scale Buddhist Esoteric Buddhist site with nearly ten thousand statues.
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The Dazu Rock Carvings at Baodingshan Mountain, including the Big Buddha Bend and Small Buddha Bend carvings centered around Shousheng Temple, comprise a large Buddhist Esoteric practice site with nearly ten thousand statues.
The key protected area of Baodingshan Grotto covers approximately 7.93 hectares, the general protected area covers approximately 37.14 hectares, and the construction control zone covers approximately 53.30 hectares.
The Dazu Beishan Carvings, named for their location north of Dazu County, were begun in the late Tang Dynasty and completed in the Southern Song Dynasty. Centered around the Beishan Buddha Bay, the carvings are distributed across five sites: Guanyin Slope
Beishan, formerly known as Longgang Mountain, is located about 1.5 kilometers north of Longgang Town in Dazu County, with an altitude of about 545.5 meters. The key protected area of Beishan cliff carvings covers an area of about 7.62 hectares, the genera
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