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Yungang Grottoes

China
Date of Inscription: 2001
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
Core zone: 348.75 ha
Buffer zone: 846.809998 ha
Datong City, Shanxi Province
N40 6 34.992 E113 7 19.992
Ref: 1039

Brief Description

The Yungang Grottoes, in Datong city, Shanxi Province, with their 252 caves and 51,000 statues, represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China in the 5th and 6th centuries. The Five Caves created by Tan Yao, with their strict unity of layout and design, constitute a classical masterpiece of the first peak of Chinese Buddhist art.