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| Luoyang |
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ancient city of Luoyang is known as the "Capital of Nine Dynasties".
Beginning in 770 B.C., the Eastern Zhou, the Eastern Han, the Wei
of the Three Kingdoms Period, the Western Jin, the Northern Wei, the
Sui, the Tang, the Later Liang and the Later Tang founded their capitals
here for almost one thousand years. After the Five Dynasties, however,
Luoyang was on the decline. |
| Longmen
Grotto |
| Longen
ranks with Dunhuang and Yungang as the three greatest repositories
of rock grotto art in China. The first caves of Longmen were excavated
in 488 A.D., the 12th year of the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the
Northern Wei Dynasty. Large - scale construction took place during
the Northern Wei and Tang dynasties and many additions were made in
later generations, honeycombing a steep cliff that extends more than
one kilometer north - south along the Yi River banks. Over 2100 niche
shrines, 89 Buddhist pagodas, 100000 sculptured figures, and 3600
tablets and inscriptions have survived the tests of time. |
| White
Horse Temple |
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White Horse Temple was called the "founder's home" and the
cradle of Chinese Buddhism. This secluded and elegant thousand - year
- old temple with red walls and green tiles in located 13 kilometers
to the east of Luoyang north of the Longhai Railway. Built in the
Eastern Han Dynasty over 1900 years ago, it was originally the place
where Liu Zhuang, the second emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, used
as a summer resort and for study. In the year when Kasyapmatanga and
another eminent Indian monk brought Buddhist scriptures to Luoyang
on the back of white horses to spread Buddhism, Liu Zhuang, a devout
believer in Buddhism, built the first government - run temple in China
and called it White Horse Temple. |
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