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Feilai Feng Grottoes 飞来峰造像Fēiláifēng Zàoxiàng
National heritage site · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hangzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Feilai Feng Grottoes
Hundreds of Buddhist figures carved between the 10th and 14th centuries into the caves and cliffs of Feilai Feng, a limestone hill across a stream from Lingyin Temple. Most date from the Song, and the largest niche shows a laughing Maitreya surrounded by the Eighteen Arhats, while the Yuan carvings made under the Tibetan Buddhist monk Yang Lianzhenjia are counted among the largest surviving groups of Yuan-dynasty sculpture in China.
How to get to Feilai Feng Grottoes
About 3 km west of West Lake at the entrance to the Lingyin scenic area, by bus or taxi; the path to Lingyin Temple runs along the carvings.
Nearby
- Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 under 10 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings - West Lake 西湖 under 10 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like
Also within 20 km: Tomb of Yu Qian 于谦墓 (under 10 km), Yue Fei Temple and Tomb 岳王庙 (under 10 km), Xiling Seal Engravers' Society 西泠印社 (under 10 km), Historic Buildings of the Zhejiang Library 浙江图书馆旧址 (under 10 km), Wenlan Pavilion 文澜阁 (under 10 km), 1954 Constitution Drafting Site 五四宪法历史资料陈列馆 (under 10 km).
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