The statues in Longmen Grottoes have got a great diversity of Buddhist figures and images, in all shapes and sizes. There is the 17.14 meters high Losana Buddha as well as small statues of few ...

The Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, Henan province is one of the three notable grottoes in China. The other two are the Yungang Caves near Datong in Shanxi province, and the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang in ...

The world-famous Longmen Grottoes are located 12km south of Luoyang. Here two mountains, namely, East Hill (Mt. Xiangshan) and West Hill (Mt. Longmen), confront each other with the Yi River traversing ...

More than 80 stone carvings, including a Buddha head, and building components have been discovered inside a cave of the Longmen Grottoes, a 1,500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site, in Luoyang, ...

We found the face of Emperor Xiaowen." In the past, it could take cultural heritage workers years to relocate a single Buddha ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This massive, early sixth-century ...

Members of the conservation, research and monitoring team under Longmen Grottoes Academy pose for a group photo after work at ...

The Longmen Grottoes, located near Luoyang, Henan Province, are a treasure house of ancient Buddhist cave art. The grottos were hewed and carved during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), when the ...