Apr 26, 2023 08:23 PM

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Photo Essay: Using Tech to Protect China’s Cultural Heritage

By Sun Liangzi and Li Hang

The 17-meter-tall Giant Vairocana Buddha statue (leftmost) is a must-see site of the Longmen Grottoes, which are located in Luoyang, Central China’s Henan province. Photo: Ding Gang/Caixin

The 17-meter-tall Giant Vairocana Buddha statue (leftmost) is a must-see site of the Longmen Grottoes, which are located in Luoyang, Central China’s Henan province. Photo: Ding Gang/Caixin

About 12 kilometers south of Luoyang, an ancient city in Central China’s Henan province, there is a massive Buddhist cave complex that is 1 kilometer long and consists of over 2,300 caves and niches carved out of cliffs, featuring about 110,000 Buddhist figures ranging in size from 2 centimeters to 17 meters tall, thousands of inscribed stone tablets and dozens of stupas.

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