Bingling Temple Grottoes

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It is located in the upper reaches of Liujiaxia Reservoir, on the north bank of the Yellow River in Sigou Gorge, southwest of Yongjing County. On the steep and dangerous red sandstone cliff with a length of 2 kilometers from north to south, there are row upon row of grottoes and shrines, and the plank road is in the sky. It is majestic and magnificent. It is one of the three largest grottoes in Gansu and one of the five largest grottoes in my country.

Bingling Temple was called "Tangshu Grotto" earlier, which means "ghost cave" in the Qiang language. It was called "Longxing Temple" in the Tang Dynasty, "Lingyan Temple" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and "Bingling Temple" after the Ming Dynasty. , also known as "Bingling Temple". Bingling means "stupid man" in Tibetan, which means "one hundred thousand Buddhas".

The Bingling Temple Grottoes were first built in the first year of Jianhong in the Western Qin Dynasty (AD 420). Since the Sixteen Kingdoms era, they have gone through the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, with a history of more than 1,600 years. During the Linxia period when the capital of the Western Qin Dynasty was established, the king's royal family visited the grotto in person and wrote an inscription, and the original work still exists on the rock wall. From the digging of caves in 420 AD to the Song Dynasty, the grottoes had a great influence on Chinese Buddhism, Pure Land Sect, Huayan Sect and Zen Buddhism. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the Yellow Sect (Gelug Sect) of Tibetan Buddhism was introduced to Bingling Temple.

On the basis of inheriting the folk art of the previous generation, the Bingling Temple Grottoes absorbed foreign Buddhist art and created vivid sculpture and painting art with a new posture and simple techniques. Its relief pagodas and Tantric murals can be compared with Mogao Grottoes It is as famous as the Maijishan Grottoes.

The grottoes are divided into three places: upper temple, Donggou and lower temple, and the lower temple is more spectacular. They are distributed on cliffs that are 200 meters long and 60 meters high. There are 196 niches in Bingling Temple Grottoes, 694 stone statues, 82 clay sculptures, and more than 900 square meters of murals. The larger seated Maitreya Buddha of the Tang Dynasty is 27 meters high, and the smaller statue is 10 centimeters high. Among them, there are 2 caves and 1 niche in the Western Qin Dynasty, 8 caves and 25 niches in the Northern Wei Dynasty, 2 caves in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, 2 caves in the Sui Dynasty, and 20 caves and 113 niches in the Tang Dynasty.

The artistic achievements of works in the Tang Dynasty were quite high, and there were more than 3,000 monks at that time. The ink inscription written by the famous monk Faxian in the first year of Jianhong in the Western Qin Dynasty (AD 420) in this cave is an earlier chronological inscription preserved in domestic grottoes. It provides a mark for the dating of other ancient grottoes in the country, and has very important historical value. .

The cave statues and murals are mainly composed of the sitting Buddha in Natural Cave No. 169 and many small and medium-sized caves in the cliff face. Cave No. 169 was called Tangshu Cave in ancient times, and is now called "Tianqiao Cave". It is 15 meters high, 8 meters deep, and 20 meters wide. It is known to be the earliest and well-preserved cave in my country. There are three types of shapes in the caves: Buddhist niches, stone carvings, and stone-carved clay sculptures. Niche 171 is located on the cliff of the grotto. There is a large seated statue of Maitreya Buddha in the Tang Dynasty, carved on the mountain, with a height of 27 meters, majestic and majestic. In the cave, "Manjusri Bodhisattva Asking Diseases Picture" of the Western Qin Dynasty is an earlier Vuijie Sutra map that has been seen in our country. The original No. 16 cave is now located in the Sleeping Buddha Hall opposite the grottoes. The 8.6-meter-long clay sculpture of Bingling Temple Reclining Buddha is a reclining Buddha in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which has very important research value. The 25-centimeter-high statue of a maid in the Tang Dynasty is a relatively precious one among the existing grotto statues in my country, which fully embodies the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Next to the cliff at the entrance of Bingling Temple stands the steep sister peaks, surrounded by scenic spots such as Yuanyang Cave and Yaoshui Spring, with beautiful mountains and rivers, dangerous peaks and strange rocks.

opening hours

08:30-17:30 from April 1st to October 31st; 08:30-17:00 from November 1st to March 31st of the following year; 8:00-16:00 for small speedboats from April to October: 00 November-March 8:30-15:00

六条壬晴

One of the four major grottoes in Gansu, built in a very quiet valley, you must go there by boat, and the statues of various dynasties are well preserved.

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veggie2008

The Great Northwest is my favorite place! worth going several times

_WeCh****28878

It can only be said that it is so beautiful and shocking. Compared with other grottoes, I feel that this place has a stronger sense of history. Simply write down the strategy, take the bus from Lanzhou West Bus Station to Liujiaxia in the morning, the fare is 23 yuan, and it will take about 2 hours to reach Liujiaxia. Then take a taxi for 5 yuan to the Liujiaxia Dam. You can go to Bingling Temple first. Here, it is emphasized that you must take a boat instead of a car. Only by boat can you experience the real scenery. The speedboat ticket costs 150 yuan for a round trip, and the one-way trip takes about 1 hour. , Bingling Temple ticket is 50, and after returning to Liujiaxia, there are many carpools to Lanzhou, about 30 per person

不可触碰撞的鱼

Bingling Temple Grottoes, one of the six largest grottoes in China, is also known as the encyclopedia of Chinese grottoes. The ancients of the Western Qin Dynasty excavated it before 1600, and there are many sculptures in the grottoes, the largest being the reclining Buddha. After visiting the Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, we arrived at Bingling Temple by speedboat for more than an hour. The mountains and rivers here are vast and thick, with dangerous peaks and strange rocks. The Bingling Temple Grottoes are located on the cliff on the west side of Dasigou in Jishi Mountain, about 40 kilometers southwest of Yongjing County, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty (about the 3rd century AD), they were excavated on the cliff of Dasigou on the north bank of the Yellow River. On top of it, it was officially established in the first year of Jianhong in the Western Qin Dynasty (420), with four floors above and below. It was first called Tangshu Grottoes, which means "ghost cave" in the Qiang language. It was called Longxing Temple in Tang Dynasty, Lingyan Temple in Song Dynasty, and Bingling Temple after Yongle in Ming Dynasty. The simplification of "Bingling" means "thousand Buddhas" and "one hundred thousand Maitreya Buddha Islands". There are 183 caves and niches, a total of 694 stone statues, 82 clay sculptures, and about 900 square meters of murals, distributed on the cliff face about 200 meters long and 60 meters high on the west bank of Dasigou. The main body of the grotto is the Tang Dynasty "Natural Giant Buddha" (Cave 169) located on the high cliff and many small and medium-sized caves in the middle of the cliff. The artistic value of Bingling Temple is second only to Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. The shapes of the Buddha statues are summarized, the techniques are concise, the dresses are flying, the posture is elegant, there is movement in the stillness, and the proportions are coordinated, which fully embodies the vigorous and rough charm of the Northwest. Cave 169 is the largest, earliest and richest cave in Bingling Temple, and it is the essence of Bingling Temple Grottoes. Due to the relatively good natural conditions and little human damage, the Bingling Temple Grottoes are still relatively intact. The geological structure of Jishi Mountain where Bingling Temple is located is fine yellow sandstone, which is easy to dig and carve, but not resistant to weathering and deliquescence. Due to the dry climate in the area, coupled with the height of the cliffs, the rock formations often protrude like eaves, which play a role in sheltering some caves from wind, rain and sun. Therefore, many cave statues are still quite complete after thousands of years. preserved. We were amazed and intoxicated among the strange mountains and beautiful caves.

笑着流泪

The Bingling Temple Grottoes are located in Yongjing County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province. Tickets are currently discounted by 20 yuan. Need to pass through Linxia Geopark. Western Qin Dynasty, Northern Wei Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty are the four most prosperous stages of Buddhism in the history of Bingling Temple.

小林6699

Very majestic, very spectacular, the scenery is quite beautiful.