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Kizil Caves
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Based on 17 reviews
53.1 km from downtown
Phone 0997-8636144
Address: About 7 kilometers southeast of Kezier Township, Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-3 hours
Highlights:
Vivid millennia-old frescoes
Silk Road Buddhist art treasure
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The largest Buddhist cave in Xinjiang, it was excavated between the cliffs on the banks of the Muzati River from the 4th to the 8th century, with 236 numbered caves. There are three types of caves: the Great Statue Cave, the Monk's Quarters Cave, and the Qiuci-style caves with spacious main rooms and two sides of the main wall opening to the back corridor. The Qiuci-style caves are the most numerous, with a picture of the heavenly palace preaching painted above the door wall, the stories of the Buddha's life painted in the squares on the left and right walls, and the stories of karma and the previous life painted in the diamond-shaped grids on the top of the vault. The outlines of the figures are mostly in the style of "bending iron and coiling silk", the skin is smudged, and the beams and rafters of the building are colored red and green to show the relationship between the front and back.
[Fun] Religious belief activities.
[Cost-effectiveness] The first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council in 1961.
Kizil Caves, also known as Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves or Heser Caves, are Chinese Buddhist caves located on the cliff of Mingyutag Mountain, 7 km southeast of Kizil Town, Baicheng County, Xinjiang, with the Muzhat River Valley to the south. Kizil Caves is the earliest and most western large cave complex in China. It was excavated in the 3rd century AD and gradually stopped in the 8th and 9th centuries AD. The length of time it lasted is unique in the world. It was one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced in 1961.
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