Cliff Three Buddha Niches Review

The Lord Buddha is the future Buddha Maitreya Buddha, replacing Sakyamuni to the world, symbolizing Wu Zetian to replace Datang and become a big week. During Wu Zetian's reign, the carving work stopped.

In Luoyang Longmen Grottoes Xishan Grottoes have a lot of artistic value for everyone to visit, this cliff three Buddha Grottoes is a very representative study of stone carving art time and space. Because he carved in the Tang Wuzhou period, the historical environment at that time made him not able to complete, but such a semi-finished product also provides us with a very precious reference for studying stone carving art.

Cliff Three Buddhas Rock Carvings are located in the Xishan Grottoes in the Longmen Grottoes Scenic Area of Luoyang. Its three Buddha statues represent the past, present, and future, for the meaning of the third Buddha, the main like Maitreya Buddha, the whole stone carving is semi-finished, no carving is completed.

There are seven statues, three of them sitting Buddha, four standing Buddha, it is worth a visit.

Cliff Three Buddhas, a small attraction in Longmen Grottoes. The specific location of the cliff three Buddhas is after Binyang Cave, in front of the Wanfo Cave. The three Buddhas are well preserved, and each Buddha statue is lifelike, solemn and breathtaking.

Located in the most prominent position in the grotto, the scale of the Buddha is huge, only the royal family can think of such a level, it is said that the prototype in the middle is the image of a generation of Queen Wu Zetian, and the destruction of successive generations has not affected.