History of Cave Temple
by Evergreen
About This Novel
Cave temples refer to Buddhist temples carved out of riverside cliffs. For some places with dense caves in cave temples, people are accustomed to calling them "Thousand Buddha Cave". The construction of ancient cave temples in my country gradually emerged and developed with the introduction of Buddhism. This book more systematically introduces the process of the emergence and development of grotto temples: In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, after Buddhism was introduced to China, grotto temples first developed in Xinjiang, with a strong ancient Kucha national style. During the Sixteen Kingdoms period, early grotto art in the Hexi Corridor emerged, centered in Liangzhou of the Northern Liang Kingdom. The Datong Yungang Grottoes and Luoyang Longmen Grottoes in the Northern Wei Dynasty pushed China's cave temples onto the track of Han nationalization. The development of cave temple art in the late Northern Dynasties and Sui Dynasty prepared sufficient conditions for the peak of Buddhist art in the early Tang Dynasty. After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Chinese cave temples began to decline and gradually became secular. Tibetan Lamaist art after the Yuan Dynasty injected fresh blood into Han Buddhism. Through the systematic introduction of this book, we can see the development of Chinese cave temple art, and thus better understand the development process of Buddhist art in China.
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