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The Andingsi Grottoes (Chinese: 安定寺石窟; pinyin: Āndìng sì shíkū) is the name given to a Buddhist site commissioned in 1132 AD containing hundreds of Bodhisattvas, Arhats, and Buddhas carved into the walls and columns of the two chambers of this small cave.[1]
Located one kilometer west of Longwangmiaogou Village, this grotto belongs to the wider Heshui Grottoes group found within Heshui County, Qingyang City in Gansu Province.[2][3] For an unknown period of time, this grotto was abandoned and most of its structures were buried. Only in 1989 was the grotto officially recorded and restored by the Chinese government, though at that time many of the carvings were already damaged.[1]
- ^ a b Dong, Guangqiang; Wei, Wenbin (August 17, 2010). "甘肃合水安定寺石窟调查简报" [Investigation bulletin of Andingsi Grottoes at Heshui County Gansu]. 敦煌研究=Dunhuang Research (4): 48–55 – via buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw.
- ^ 国家文物局=National Cultural Heritage Administration (June 2001). 中国文物地图集: 甘肃分册 [Atlas of Chinese Cultural Relics: Gansu Book]. 测绘出版社=Surveying and Mapping Press.
- ^ Zhang, Baoxi (2003). "合水平定川石窟群" [Heshui County Grotto group]. 陇右文博=Longyou Wenbo (1).