Splendor Dazu Buddhist
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Dazu is a small city to 164 kilometers of Chongqing that has preserved many of the customs and traditions of the ancient Sichuan. With his wooden houses, his shops opened on the outside and especially this slow rhythm of the small towns that so rapid is disappearing in China. In spite of the good Dazu qualities, nobody is going to visit the city, but to visit the caves of the outskirts, where one of the biggest treasures is of sculptures Buddhists of China. It is anticipated that about Dazu there are approximately 50.000 sculptures and reliefs distributed by more than 40 places of interest. At present there are visited those of Baodingshan, the most important, to 14 kilometers of the city and those of Beishan, to only two kilometers of the city center. Each one is provided with approximately 10.000 sculptures realized between the dynasty Tang and the dynasty Song. Between his religious topics, there exist descriptions of the everyday life at which the artist is employed with big freedom and scenes of schools Buddhists very little known in Occident.
Baodingshan is the most important of the centers of sculptures placed in the surroundings of Dazu. It is to fifteen kilometers to the northeast of the city. From Dazu salt buses every twenty minutes and the way not only has a daydream scenery, but we will surprise with some isolated sculpture. On having come, we will meet an impressive spectacle. In a mountain with form of horseshoe there has been carved a series of sculptures of big mastery. In many of them one has made use of the proper structure of the mountain. The most important of them is the Number eleven: The Nirvana of Buddha. It is an enormous composition of a Buddha yaciente, the 31 meters long and five high one. Around him there are numerous other caves and sculptures of interest. In the Number eight, for example, Guanyin, the goddess of the compassion, has thousand hands with thousand eyes. In the number 29 the way appears to reach the budeidad state
Some caves describe scenes relative to the life of Sakyamuni, to the subsidiary love, to the birth of the School Mizong, of type tántrica, founded by Buddha Pilu, to the paradise (18) and to the hell (21 and 22).
Beishan is the second sculptural set of Dazu. To only two kilometers of the city. There is a series of 290 niches extended along 250 meters. Many of them are minor than those of Baodingsan, less elaborated and worse preserved. The classic topics of the Buddhism are mixed by some of nature clearly confuciana, like the subsidiary piety. The most beautiful of this joint sound:
Cave 136. Known like stone Mill, carved in the dynasty Song, it shows a serene and elegant set in which they emphasize two representations of Guanyin, Buddha of the compassion, with feminine features, on an elephant and on a lion.
Cave 245. Called Paradise on the West, Buddhist makes to inform in this classic scene of the art a good number of personages.
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