A Survey into the Northern-Wei Grottoes in Peng Village of Yijun County,Shaanxi Province
There is a grotto of three caves in Peng Village of Yijun County,Shaanxi Province.Cave 3,constructed during the mid-5th century to the 18th year of Taihe reign(494 CE)of the Northern-Wei dynasty when Emperor Xiaowen(孝文帝)moved the capital to Luoyang,completed probably in the early 6th century,has the slim-shaped Buddha statues under the influence of the capital of Pingcheng(present Datong).Cave i and Cave 2,built up in the early 6th century,have the Han-styled Buddha and the Bodhisattva statues under the impact from Luoyang as the capital of the Northern-Wei Dynasty then.The three caves have the Buddha statues with the impressive shared-feature of Shaanxi style,which are the innovation of the local artists.Three-Buddhas,Maitreya,pensive Bodhisattva are shaped as the major of the statues thematically,all represent the practice of meditation popular in the Buddhism at that time.
the Northern-Wei DynastyPeng Village of Yijun CountygrottoesBuddhist art
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