Built over 1,500 years ago, the Hanging Temple, or Xuankong Temple, is notable for its location on a sheer precipice. The ...
The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...
Huayan Monastery is located in the southwestern part of Datong. These splendid ancient buildings were constructed of wood during the Liao Dynast more than nine hundred years ago. This "great ...
In Datong's Hunyuan county, the towering Hengshan Mountain cradles the Xuankong Temple, or the Hanging Temple, which appears delicately suspended against a nearly vertical cliff face, as if ...
The temple complex is located near the city of Datong in the Chinese province of Shanxi. The entire site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2001 and replicates Buddhist cave art from ...
Huayan Monastery is located in the southwestern part of Datong. These splendid ancient buildings were constructed of wood during the Liao Dynast more than nine hundred years ago. This “great ...
The nearly 1,000-year-old Huayan Temple in Datong is one of the largest and best-preserved temple complexes from the Liao (916-1125) and Jin (1115-1234) dynasties. Built in 1038, it was destroyed ...