Gansu Grottoes and Pagodas Temples

Author: Li Yanping
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: This book includes the buildings of caves, pagodas, temples, and shrines scattered across Gansu before 1840 (including Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, mosques, Catholic churches, and Protestant churches, etc.), as well as temples (such as Buddhist monasteries, Confucian temples, martial temples, dragon kings' temples, and earth gods' temples, etc.). Any place that has stirred a ripple in the long history of Gansu's development is given a certain amount of space. Those that are national or provincial key cultural relic protection units are treated as key entries, with an effort to give them weight; those that are county-level key cultural relic protection units are selectively included in the book based on their historical value; those whose physical remains are no longer extant or are not covered in this book are listed separately. As Gansu is the province with the most caves in China, there are 7 cave sites under national protection, making them representatives of the material achievements of religious culture in Gansu and also the magnificent crystallization of the splendid ancient culture of Gansu.