中国国家地理网
中国国家地理网
Description: China Scenic is the English edition of Chinese National Geography magazine, the authoritative source of geographical knowledge of China and the senior reports on Chinese culture and society. With its mission of “Connecting China to the World”, China Scenic aims to unveil the splendors of nature, and to showcase the quintessence of humanities, thus, helping you to construct the knowledge of China.
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On the walls running along the corridor in Grotto #61, there is what’s called the Illustration of the Sutra on Buddha Tejaprabha. The images on the north and south sides are more or less the same, namely in the center is Buddha Tejaprabha, sitting in a carriage, surrounded by the nine gods of the skies. In the upper part, among the clouds, there are portraits of the twenty-eight mansions (contents of the Chinese constellations system, which are equivalent to the zodiacal constellations), in groups of four,
The Kalamaili, a paradise of wildlife, protects not only rare herbivores such as the Mongolian wild ass, Przewalski’s horse, and goitered gazelle, but also carnivores that are equally significant in maintaining the ecosystem, just like the two sand foxes in this photo. You can also find wolves following the herds, or snow leopards and manuls prowling in the mountain rocks. Photo/ Nijiat Mahmut
The Yumbulakhar Palace is the first palace in Tibetan history and is alleged to be built by Benists for the first Tibetan king Nyatri Tsanpo. The scale of the palace is not large, but the fact of building on a towering mountain adds magnificence and majesty to it, making it an exemplary representative of Tibetan Cliff-style architecture, by which the idea of “loftiness” of the Bon followers and the dignity of sovereign power are fully demonstrated. Photo/ Zhou Yan
中国国家地理网
中国国家地理网