Yet again Brita gets her picture taken!

The Buddha

Carvings of Buddha range from 17 meters high to 1 cm.

The carvings were made from the northern Wei (386-584 A.D.) to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.).

One of the caves is filled with small medical prescription carvings.

From the large Cave of the Ten Thousand Buddhas

Ancestor Worshipping Cave with the largest Buddha

Bamboo scaffolding...cleaning the statues. Bob says "They are cauterizing the wound!"

The central figure supposedly captured the visage of Empress Wu Zetian.

Guardian figures

Bob and Kaia

Several Chinese art students were drawing the figures.