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gansuMaiji Mountain Grottoes Guide: Gansu's Cliffside Buddhist Sculptures
Explore the Maiji Mountain Grottoes in Gansu — the fourth of China's Four Great Grottoes, with extraordinary clay and sandstone Buddhist sculptures from the Northern Wei through Song dynasties, carved into vertiginous cliffside galleries connected by ancient wooden scaffolding walkways.
Updated May 2026
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Maijishan Grottoes Gansu: China's Most Dramatic Buddhist Cliff Sculptures
Discover Maijishan in Gansu — one of China's four great Buddhist grotto complexes, carved into a sheer 142-metre cliff since the 4th century CE, with 7,200 clay sculptures visible on open-air walkways bolted into the rock face above a forested Silk Road valley.
Updated May 2026
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Tianshui Gansu Guide 2026: Maiji Mountain Grottos & the Ancient Wei River Valley
Tianshui in southeastern Gansu is home to the Maiji Mountain Grottoes, one of China's four great Buddhist cave art sites — 194 caves carved into a cliff face shaped like a haystack, containing 7,200 sculptures and 1,300 square meters of murals spanning 1,600 years. This guide covers the grottoes in detail, Tianshui's other historical sites, the Wei River valley landscape, and how to get there from Xi'an or Lanzhou.
Updated May 2026
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