Buddha and Temples in Asia – Music Video
Dazu Rock Carvings (大足石刻) are a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Dazu District, Chongqing, China.
The carvings date back as far as the 7th century AD, depicting and influenced by Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist beliefs.
Some are in rock-cut cave shrines, in the usual Chinese Buddhist style, but many others are rock reliefs carved into the open rock faces.
Listed as a World Heritage Site in 1999, the Dazu Rock Carvings are made up of 75 protected sites containing some 50,000 statues, with over 100,000 Chinese characters forming inscriptions and epigraphs.
The sites are located in Chongqing Municipality within the steep hillsides throughout Dazu District, located about 165 kilometers west of the urban area of Chongqing. The highlights of the rock grotto are found on Mount Baoding and Mount Beishan.
Anyue Rock Carvings (安岳石刻), also known as Anyue Grottoes, is located in Anyue County, Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, China, and is the general name for the grottoes and statues in the territory of Anyue.
The earliest extant statue is inscribed in the 11th year of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty (723).
The period from the Tang to the Northern Song Dynasty was the peak period of stone carvings, which lasted until the Ming and Qing Dynasties and even into modern times.
There are now more than 140 grotto statues of various types in Anyue, of which 69 are well preserved. There are about 100,000 statues and more than 400,000 Buddhist scriptures carved on stone.
Chapters:
00:00 Dazu Rock Carvings (大足石刻), China
03:18 Anyue Rock Carvings (安岳石刻), China
05:36 Suzhou (苏州), China
08:09 Luoyang (洛阳), China
08:33 Fujian (太姥山), China
10:05 Shanghai (静安寺), China
11:32 Yangzhou (大明寺), China
13:34 Lushan (庐山), China
14:59 Japan (日本)
18:35 Korea (韓國)
20:07 Vietnam (越南)
21:28 Amitabha
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