It wasn't until after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 that efforts were made to restore the grottoes.

Bingling Temple Grottoes in Yongjing county ... the cave allow scholars to trace the route of the spread of Buddhism in ancient China." For around a century, the cave was sealed off from the ...

By the time of the reign of the Northern Wei empire, both Taghbah and Chinese cultures had become deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they had inherited from India in a long process of ...

A cat at a Buddhist temple in China has become an unexpected internet sensation after videos of it ‘blessing’ visitors with high-fives went viral. A cat at a Buddhist temple in China has ...