Mogao Caves

The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 500 temples 25 km southeast of the center of Dunhuang, in Gansu province, China. The first caves were dug out in AD 366 as places of Buddhist meditation and worship. By the Sui Dynasty, the number of caves had reached over...