The Xi Kan Grottoes located in the Xikan village which is 1 kilometer away from the city. There are 92 Grottoess and 2118 statues located in Longrisi, Liubeichi and Foyewan. The Xi Kan Grottoes is the earliest digged and more exquisive and richest in the content. The Foyewan at the mountain foot, named Xikansi. There are statues and Grottoess distributed on the rock, including 52 Grottoess with sakya and mile so on…
The No.21 Grottoes have the signature of “捡得大隋大业五年（609）造前件古像”, in the Grottoes there is a statue of sakya convention. The kings draws a lot of attention. kings dressed in armor, shoed boots, sword, Zuta to ghosts, Shu-phase sit with the king in general positions are different; Kannei on top of four flying and niche, on more than ten ethereal body in the clouds hovering around a tower, Thunder and during the mother revealed. |
The No.35 Grottoes in Xi Kan Grottoes |
The No.53 Grottoes has a content of western paradise. Now the statue has weathered, but the niches of the octagonal-shaped canopy top China and the United States, on both sides of the temple reflect the Pure Land pavilion is well preserved, these two simulation pavilion Tang Dynasty sculpture of the high-2 meters, three-tiered, square stage, corner brackets, hollow sculpture, pavilions are carved Buddha dependent, dependent Heaven and Kuregaku days, Kuregaku days held by a variety of musical instruments is to study the history of important information, which is a rare two pavilions form it is the rare specimens of Tang Dynasty architecture.。
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The statue of mile in Xi Kan Grottoes |
