Mogao Caves

monastery · 300 AD – 1399 AD

Buddhist cave monastery complex in the cliffs above the Dachuan River near the Dunhaung Oasis, constructed in 366 CE and in use until the 14th Century CE. The caves contain thousands of murals and painted sculptures, and thousands of manuscripts in Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Sogdian, Sanskrit, and Khotanese were stored in the so-called "Library Cave." The Mogao Caves were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1987.

Coordinates

40.03731, 94.80374

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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