Anyue County , Sichuan Province, China is China known ruins of ancient Buddhist statues County is currently the most concentrated , has found ancient Grotto 200 , 100,000 statues , especially in the Tang and Song Dynasty magnificent statues of exquisite statues known the world, in the history of Chinese stone carving art has a deck Yungang , Longmen , under Kai Dazu Rock Carvings of special status .

Temple of the Reclining Buddha ANYUE eight Ziyang City , Sichuan Province Anyue eight Miaoxiang Reclining ditch. 39 km from the county seat Anyue eight Miaoxiang town 5 kilometers , is located in Anyue , housing junction. Buddha statues and carved by the hospital 's Cliff Tang Kaiyuan began eleven years ( 723 ) before the massive statues carved by Tang Kaiyuan, starting from the Song dynasty gradually decline. From the Tang Dynasty monk Xuan should jointly create and later monks and laymen . Is a set of cultural and natural stone as one of the ecological landscape leisure tourism.

Reclining on a high hospital about one kilometer ditch about 20 meters on both sides of the Reclining Buddha cliff , retained a large number engraved made ​​in the Tang Dynasty , Five Dynasties , Song Dynasty stone statues and carvings Cliff Buddhist scriptures, its statues area up to 865 meters , 142 cave shrine . There are 1613 stone statues , stone sutra 15 caves, inscriptions, inscription , Jing Zhuang , dozens of animals images . Cliff Zen Buddhism mainly between Tantric statues , as many as 57 kinds of subjects . Statues of the characters , objects , animals and other vivid, Vivid , thousands modality , natural look , is the heyday of Chinese works of art of the mid- stone in the crowd. Attractions include: Buddha preaching , Nirvana Sutra ( of lying ) , three Shenfo , Maitreya, terra , Avalokitesvara , Jing Zhuang , stone Buddhist scriptures and so on.

Reclining hospital patterned stone statues especially strange , novel conception , absolutely fine carving of " Buddha Nirvana map" ( lying Buddhas ) is famous as China's largest stone Buddha statues systemic Tang Dynasty , China's the only one left flank lying " Nirvana map" , is the earliest extant , the most complete body reclining Buddha image, comparable to the Leshan Giant Buddha - the world's largest seated Buddha Maitreya is comparable , with a high aesthetic value and historical ornamental research value. Take the whole mountain statues potential, well-designed, bold innovation, constituted by the three groups of statues representing the entire cliff face more than 300 square meters. Above a group of statues is preaching Sakya Muni Nirvana front , in the middle of a group of Tang Dynasty " Sakyamuni Nirvana map" Buddha statues. Reclining back north face south , lying sideways between rock , length 23 m , Qu Mei Feng Yi , Tan Lu chest muscle , shape dignified. Head east foot West, Zuoxie clothes , and Buddhist scriptures "North First Xie lying" , "pillow hands tired feet ," contrary to , the more unique mystical trend. Below a set of statues of Buddhist scriptures becomes the story .

There are 15 homes Reclining Buddha Cave , words of more than 40 million words of stone Buddhist scriptures. Scripture is from right to left or go straight incised script running script , neat handwriting , exquisite carving , is typical of the Tang Dynasty calligraphy . Its carving and calligraphy is recognized as the world Shuangjue . Verses are: "Buddha by the name ", "big like Nirvana Sutra" , " Lotus Sutra ", " Amitabha Sutra ", " Tan three Tripitaka ", " Golden Light Sutra ", " Vimalakirti said after "and 70 academic books, more than 300 volumes, product , when crown China 's push . Carved by the study of Buddhist texts , corrected version of Buddhist scriptures , provide a valuable source basis. Among them, 73 caves carved by the " Tan Three Tripitaka " is the Chinese Tripitaka in print ; famous Tang Dynasty monk Jing -tai wrote "all the sequences on the head ," No. 46 by the cave carved , is Chinese stone the only existing copies retained Buddhist scriptures , known as Fang , " the whole world only this moment ." Reclining Buddha scenic courtyard and stone statues carved by , is the study of Tang , the Five Dynasties and political , economic and cultural history of the Northern Song Dynasty , the religious development of China's precious materials , is the famous Sichuan tourist destination.