The introduction of the thousand eyed Buddha of Maijishan, what are the three big Buddhas of Tianshu

The statue of Maijishan Grottoes "copy one Buddha and two Bodhisattvas". Shakyamuni, sitting on his knees in the middle, has a solemn expression, and the Bodhisattva and Avalokiteshvara on both sides stand upright and slightly lower than the Great Buddha, smiling, especially kind, as if joyfully welcoming the guests. We felt their kindness, and they taught the good men and women who believed in it.

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Tianshui Maijishan is a famous mountain with a beautiful environment and a long history. It concentrates the crystallization of ancient art in our country and is a splendid pearl in the northwest of the motherland.

Maiji Mountain is surrounded by mountains and towers high among the mountains. From a distance, it looks like a wheat stack. Up close, the mountain is smooth and flat like a wheat basket. There is a pine forest on the top of the mountain, which sways with the wind, as if it is about to fall off the full ears. Maijishan really lives up to its name.

There are three giant Buddhas in Maijishan, which are called "three-body nyorai" by the locals. These three giant Buddhas just surround Maijishan. There are two Buddhas beside each of them, solemn and dignified.

Below there are "Seven Buddha Pavilion", "Thousand Hands Buddha", "Maitreya Buddha" and various small Buddhas. There are seven Buddhas in the "Seven Buddha Pavilion" with different shapes and tall bodies. "Buddha with a Thousand Hands" is a high Buddha with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes, known as the "Great Bodhisattva".

"Maitreya Buddha" is the well-known "Yongle Buddha" with a big belly, a big mouth, and a smile. In addition, there are 500 arhats, some of them laughing, some of them making trouble, and some of them are sitting upright.

Maijishan, a pearl inlaid in the northwest of the motherland, is an amazing treasure house of ancient art in our country.

The Leshan Giant Buddha is very huge, and it is the largest cliff stone Buddha statue in our country. The overall height reaches 71 meters, and the length of one finger of the Buddha statue alone is more than 2 meters. A Buddha's foot occupies an area.

The destination of this tour is Maijishan Grottoes. Maiji Mountain is located about 35 kilometers southeast of Tianshui City, Gansu Province, is a strange peak in Xiaolong Mountain at the west end of Qinling Mountains in China, the altitude is 1742 meters, but the mountain height is only 142 meters from the ground, the shape of the mountain is peculiar, the lonely peak protrudes, like a wheat stack, so people call it Maiji Mountain. The Maijishan Grottoes are also the "Silk Road:

The road network of the initial section and the Tianshan Corridor is one of the 22 sites to be inscribed on the World Heritage List, which is scheduled to be voted on at the World Heritage Committee in 2014. It is an important scenic spot in Maijishan Scenic Area, a national 5A-level tourist attraction, Maijishan Grottoes is one of the four major grottoes in China, and is known as the "Oriental Sculpture Museum."

Many of the caves in Maijishan have been built into a unique "cliff pavilion". The Seven Buddha Pavilion at a height of 15 meters on the head of the East Cliff Clay Buddha is a typical Chinese Han-style cliff pavilion building, built on a cliff more than 50 meters above the ground, and excavated in the middle of the 6th century AD. Although the Maijishan Grottoes are mainly clay sculptures, there are also a certain number of stone carvings and murals.

Maijishan Grottoes is listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit, and more than 1,300 meters of volley plank road has been newly framed and repaired, so that visitors can smoothly climb all the caves.

Maijishan Grottoes is an important scenic spot in Maijishan Scenic Area, a national 5A-level tourist attraction, because the mountain shape resembles the shape of a farmer's wheat stack, so it is named. The niches of Maijishan Grottoes are carved into a vertical cliff face with a height of 20 to 80 meters and a width of 200 meters. There are 194 cave niches, 54 caves in the east cliff, 140 caves in the west cliff, more than 7,800 clay sculptures, stone fetal clay sculptures, stone carving statues, the largest statue of the East Cliff Buddha is high meters, and the murals are more than 1,000 square meters.

Maijishan Grottoes is known as the "Oriental Sculpture Museum" and is one of the four major grottoes in China, and the other three caves are: Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Datong Yungang Grottoes, and Luoyang Longmen Grottoes. On June 22, 2014, at the 38th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Doha, Qatar, the Maijishan Grottoes were selected as the "Silk Road:" jointly inscribed by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan on the World Heritage List

One of the sites in the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Road Network was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List.

The grotto is an important part of the ancient Silk Road cultural transmission, through the carved Buddha statues in different periods, you can clearly see the differences in the cultural environment at that time, and some Buddha statues also have exotic customs. At that time, Maijishan was located in the key geographical location of east-west-north-south traffic, which was not only influenced by the mainstream grottoes in the north of the Central Plains, but also radiated by the southern and western cultures.

The famous Buddha stele in Cave 133 is the No. 10 stele, with Shakya's vow in the heavens of Lili as the core, from the burning of the lamp to the Nirvana in the Saluo Forest on the bank of the Xiruopati River. A total of Buddhist stories such as the birth of the elephant, the birth under the tree, and the saying of the Wangshecheng are carved.

The grottoes were built in the Later Qin Dynasty (384 417 years), and were developed in the Northern Wei Dynasty during the Ming Yuan Emperor and Taiwu Emperor Taiwu Emperor, and after the first year of the Xiaowen Emperor Taihe (477 years). After the death of Emperor Wen of the Western Wei Dynasty, Empress Yifu (Empress Yifu), Maiji Cliff was dug here for a niche and buried. During the Baoding and Tianhe years of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (561 to 572), Li Yunxin, the governor of Qinzhou, built the Seven Buddha Pavilion for his deceased father.

In the first year of Emperor Wen of Sui (601), he built a tower in Maiji Mountain to "bury the god Nisher", and then through the Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it became one of the famous grottoes in China. About in the twenty-second year of Tang Kaiyuan (734), because of the strong **, the middle of the cliff face of the Maijishan Grottoes collapsed, and the cave group was divided into two parts: east and west cliffs.

The location of Maijishan Grottoes belongs to Tianshui, Gansu Province, is located in the mountains of about 40 kilometers southeast of Tianshui City, because of the peak of the digging grottoes, the flat ground rises, the shape is like a wheat stack, so it is named. "The Biography of Liang High Monks" once recorded that Shi Tanhong tasted in seclusion in Maijishan in the early years of Song Yong of the Five Dynasties, and at the same time, Shi Xuangao also preached here, indicating that Maijishan had a Buddhist temple as early as the beginning of the 5th century. Therefore, the founding of the Maijishan Buddha Caves may be in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms before the Northern Dynasties.

The rock of Maijishan is relatively soft, so it is the same as the conglomerate in Xinjiang and Dunhuang, it is not suitable for carving Buddha statues, only clay color statues are used, and only in a very small number of caves there are stone carvings or statue tablets, and its stones are obviously transported from other places.