CAVE 5 (470-493 A.D.)

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).

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