{"id":2760,"date":"2014-05-17T16:35:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T16:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setcourseforchina.wordpress.com\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2014-05-17T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T16:35:43","slug":"day-one-mogaoku-grottoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"Day One- Mogaoku Grottoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/05\/dscf3287.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2762\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3287.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mogaoku Grottoes in Dun Huang, Gansu Province, are 1,600 years old.\u00a0 There are approximately 495 caves in which Buddhist followers carved images of Buddha and painted on the walls and ceilings.\u00a0 It is also referred to as the 1,000 Buddha Caves; however, there are more than 1,000 Buddha&#8217;s depicted there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you are not allowed to take any pictures inside of the caves to preserve the quality of the paintings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/05\/dscf3290.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2767\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3290.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside this building is the 3rd largest Buddha in the world.\u00a0 It is 35 meters tall and just massive!\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t even as tall as the Buddha&#8217;s foot!\u00a0 Interestingly, this Buddha used to be the 5th largest in the world but the 3rd and 4th largest Buddha&#8217;s in Afghanistan were destroyed so it moved up to number 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mogaoku Grottoes in Dun Huang, Gansu Province, are 1,600 years old.\u00a0 There are approximately 495 caves in which Buddhist followers carved images of Buddha and painted on the walls and ceilings.\u00a0 It is also referred to as the 1,000 Buddha Caves; however, there are more than 1,000 Buddha&#8217;s depicted there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}