Maytszishan Caves — China 
 
Buddhist complex Maytszishan little known. It is located in Gansu Province in northwest China.
This is a striking architectural complex, carved out of the rock.
Maytszishan has 7,000 Buddhist sculptures and nearly 1,000 square meters of murals.
Maytszishan is just a few miles south of the Great Silk Road. Many of the monks chose to stay in these caves and work there.
One of the earliest written records about this are found in the biographies of the two monks Tanhonga ...

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