Thousand Buddha cliff scenic spot

Qianfo cliff is located on the East Bank of Jialing River, 5km north of Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province. The ancient plank road dangerous Pavilion, Shikui Pavilion, is just at the south end of the cliff, facing huangze Temple across the river. Qianfo cliff is the largest grotto group in Sichuan. In April 1961, it was listed as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council. Qianfo cliff cliff statues began in the Northern Wei Dynasty. After nearly 1500 years, the 45 meter high cliff with a length of more than 200 meters from north to south is full of niches, overlapping 13 layers, dense as a beehive. According to the inscriptions of emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty in 1854, the total number of statues on the cliff is 17000. Unfortunately, when the Sichuan Shaanxi highway was built in 1935, more than half of the statues were destroyed. There are only more than 400 niches and 7000 statues. The whole cliff statue takes Dayun cave as the center and is divided into North and South sections. The southern section of the niches include: Buddha cave, lotus cave, Muni Pavilion, thousand Buddha cave, Sleeping Buddha niche, Duobao Buddha niche, Jieyin Buddha niche, donor niche, Shenlong Buddha, Ruyi lunguanyin, single Buddha cave, etc.; the northern section includes: Sanshi Buddha niche, worry free tree niche, Maitreya Buddha niche, Sanshen Buddha niche, Jiexing monk niche, Bodhi statue niche, Jile Tianren niche, dicangwang niche, Lishi niche, Lushena niche Eleven Avalokitesvara statues, Amitabha niches, flying grottoes, Tibetan Buddha cave in Qing Dynasty, etc. Dayun cave is located in the center of Qianfo cliff, with the largest scale. There are 234 statues, 148 lotus Guanyin statues on the left and right walls, and Maitreya Buddha is the largest statue in the middle of the cave. It is said that Maitreya is the incarnation of Empress Wu. In 690, when Wu Zetian officially ascended the throne, 12 monks, including Xue Huaiyi, the faming monk of Baima temple, wrote Dayun Jing to meet the needs of Wu Zetian as emperor. According to Dayun Jing, Wu Zetian was born as Maitreya Buddha and should replace Li Tang as emperor. Wu Zetian was overjoyed and wrote a preface in her own handwriting, which was promulgated in the world. She also ordered the States to build Dayun temple to collect Dayun Scripture. Because Wu Zetian was born in Lizhou, the local people built Dayun cave on Qianfo cliff, and carved this statue of Maitreya Buddha and the two saints in the back niche, Gaozong Lizhi and Wu Zetian. According to the Chinese tradition, men should be left and women should be right, and the arrangement of the two saints is women left and men right, while men in the Buddhist niche are higher and women are lower, which reflects the ingenious idea of the designer. Now Guangyuan City Cultural Relics Management Office has built and improved the corridor of cliff pavilions, with ladder climbing, which can access to the niches.

Thousand Buddha cliff scenic spot

Jiajiang thousand Buddha Rock Scenic Spot is located 3 kilometers west of Jiajiang County, Leshan City. It is picturesque and close to mountains and rivers. It is called "the best place in Qingyi".

Jiajiang thousand Buddha Rock Scenic Spot is located 3 kilometers west of Jiajiang County, Leshan City. It is picturesque and close to mountains and rivers. It is called "the best place in Qingyi". The confrontation between Daguan mountain and yifenggang, and the winding of Qingyi River, form the beautiful scenery of "two mountains confrontation, a river mouth flow". On the stone wall on the left bank of Qingyi River, there are more than 200 Grottoes with more than 2400 carved statues, so it is called "Thousand Buddha cliff". For example, it was excavated in Sui Dynasty, flourished in Tang Dynasty, and extended to Ming and Qing Dynasties; the statues were arranged in a disorderly way, with one cave at least occupied and hundreds of statues gathered in one cave at most; it can be more than Zhang in size, less than Chi in size, beautiful in shape, exquisite in skill, different in posture, and colorful, especially "pure land". It shows the superb level of ancient Chinese stone carving art. In addition to the cliff statues, there are a wide range of inscriptions.

Address: Qianfo cliff scenic spot on the East Bank of Jialing River, Lizhou District, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 105.85372075438

Latitude: 32.469124191817

Ticket information: 29 RMB

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