Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Mogao Caves' has mentioned 'Buddhist' in the following places:
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| The caves may also be known as the Dunhuang Caves; however, this term is also used as a collective term to include other Buddhist cave sites in and around the Dunhuang area, such as the Western Thousand Buddha Caves, Eastern Thousand Buddha Caves, Yulin Caves, and Five Temple Caves. | WIKI |
| [2][3] The Mogao Caves are the best known of the Chinese Buddhist grottoes and, along with Longmen Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes, are one of the three famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. | WIKI |
| According to a book written during the reign of Tang Empress Wu, Fokan Ji (xe4xbdx9bxe9xbex95xe8xa8x98, An Account of Buddhist Shrines) by Li Junxiu (xe6x9dx8exe5x90x9bxe4xbfxae), a Buddhist monk named Lxc3xa8 Zxc5xabn (xe6xa8x82xe5xb0x8a, which may also be pronounced Yuezun) had a vision of a thousand Buddhas bathed in golden light at the site in 366 AD, inspiring him to build a cave here. | WIKI |
| These caves were elaborately painted, the cave paintings and architecture serving as aids to meditation, as visual representations of the quest for enlightenment, as mnemonic devices, and as teaching tools to inform those illiterate about Buddhist beliefs and stories. | WIKI |
| The Library Cave also contained textiles such as banners, numerous damaged figurines of Buddhas, and other Buddhist paraphernalia. | WIKI |
| This theory proposes that the monks of a nearby monastery heard about the fall of the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan to Karakhanids invaders from Kashgar in 1006 and the destruction it caused, so they sealed their library to avoid it being destroyed. | WIKI |
| The subject matter of the great majority of the scrolls is Buddhist in nature, but it also covers a diverse material. | WIKI |
| Along with the expected Buddhist canonical works are original commentaries, apocryphal works, workbooks, books of prayers, Confucian works, Taoist works, Nestorian Christian works, works from the Chinese government, administrative documents, anthologies, glossaries, dictionaries, and calligraphic exercises. | WIKI |
| [43] Many of the early caves were developed from earlier Buddhist rock-cut chaitya styles seen in places such as the Ajanta Caves in India, with a square-sectioned central column, with sculpture in niches, representing the stupa round which worshippers may circumambulate (parikrama) and gain blessings. | WIKI |
| Buddhist subjects are most common, however some have traditional mythical subjects and portraits of patrons. | WIKI |
| An innovation of the Sui-Tang period is the visual representation of the sutra xe2x80x93 Mahayana Buddhist teachings transformed into large complete and detailed narrative paintings. | WIKI |
| 10th century mural from Cave 61, showing Tang Buddhist monasteries of Mount Wutai, Shanxi province The travel of Zhang Qian to the West, complete view, c. 700 The travel of Zhang Qian to the West, details of mural from cave 323, 618xe2x80x93712 A Tang Chinese silk landscape painting depicting a young Sakyamuni cutting his hair Vajrapani Painting at Mogao Caves (Library Cave) Bandit attacks Vaishravana riding across the waters. | WIKI |
| Young female Buddhist donors. | WIKI |
| A fresco shows the Tang style architecture in the Buddhist land. | WIKI |
| Sogdian Daxc4x93nxc4x81s depicting two Zoroastrian deities once worshipped by the Sogdians Nestorian painting of Jesus Christ discovered at the Library Cave Buddhist cave art, a dancer spins while the orchestra plays. | WIKI |
| Criteria (iv): The Thousand-Buddha Caves constitute an outstanding example of a Buddhist rock art sanctuary. | UNESCO |
| Criteria (v): Occupied by Buddhist monks from the end of the 19th century up to 1930, the rock art ensemble at Mogao, administered by the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute, preserves the example of a traditional monastic settlement. | UNESCO |