This cave forms a pair with cave 8. In front of this cave is a three-storeyed wooden structure. Cave 7 has the front and back chambers. The main statues on the upper sections of the north wall in back chamber are the trikala buddhas, on the east, west and south walls are four rows of niches. The caission ceiling is decorated on the top of the cave. The six celestial donors over the arch of the door in the south wall are exquisitely carved. The images of Sky Bhiksu in meditation on the two reveals of the window are the important historical material for studying Buddhist ideology in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

This is the largest of all the caves in YunGang, named LingYan temple in the past. The face of the cliff is about 25 meters high. The construction started in the Northern Wei Period, the whole cave hadn't been completed before the capital was moved to LuoYang, except for the front chamber, the south part of the back chamber, the nich on the upper part of the front chamber and the two pagodas. The three Buddhist statues in the back chamber were carved afterwards in the Tang Dynasty.

In the centre is a square pillar with niches cut on its four sides to house statues. Over the entrance, there is an inscription dating from the Zhengguang Period (520-525 A.D.). This is the latest inscription in the Northern Wei Period found in the YunGang caves. The bottom of the entrance is 1.4 meter lower than the inside ground, which indicates that this cave was not completed in history. This has provided reliable material evidence for the study of carving methods and procedures.

Cave 5 forms a pair with cave 6, and each has the front and back chambers. The main statues in the bank chamber of cave 5 show the thikala buddhas, the seated statue of Sakyamuni, 17 meters high in the middle of the wall is the largest Buddha in the YunGang caves. All over the inner surface of the cave are carved with niches and Buddhist statues. On both reveals of the arched doorway are two buddhas sitting face to face under a bodhi tree. In front of these two caves stands a four-storeyed wooden structure rebuilt in the 8th year of Shunzhi's reign at the begining of the Qing Dynasty (1651).

Cave 1 and cave 2 from a pair of Buddhist cave temples. In the center of cave 1 is carved a square pillar in the shape of a two-storeyed pagoda. The main statue on the bank wall is maitreya. On the upper sections of the east, west and south walls are statues of celestial musicians and a seated Buddha in meditation. On the middle section are carved a row of niches with statues.and at the north part of the lower section on the east wall are two reliefs depicting syama jataka. On the two reveals of the southern entrance are statues of the bodhisa vimalakirti and manjusri.