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Rock-cut sites in China · Mysteria

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Rock-cut sites in China

50 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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Verified45 Widely accepted3 Contested2 Hypothetical0 Unverified0 Pseudoarchaeology0

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Rock-cut sites50 Temple complexes34 Archaeological wonders20 Buddhist temples14 Grottos14 Grottoeses9

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🇨🇳China50

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Partially excavated22 Excavation ongoing20 Excavated5 Unexcavated3

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unesco11 grottoes10 northern wei9 silk road9 northern qi8 tang8 bingling6 tianlongshan

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🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut

Longmen Binyang Central Cave — Mt Long Gate Middle Grotto Sanctuary

Northern Wei to Tang (493 – 750 CE) · Buddhist imperial Luoyang under Empress Dowager Hu

Central Binyang 11 m Buddha of Northern Wei Emperor Xuanwu at Yi Gorge.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut

Dazu Beishan Rock Carvings — Chongqing Northern Mountain Gallery

Late Tang to Southern Song (892 – 1178 CE) · Chinese Buddhist with Song gentry patron

Beishan 264 caves with 10k slender Song statues 892–1178 at Dazu north hill.

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