Travelling: Ajanta Buddhist Relics League

Ajanta Buddhist Relics League

Ajanta is the place I really want to go in the future. Because of its ancient beauty and the remains of Buddhism and ancient Indian culture.

Ajanta Caves

Ajanta Cave

We all know that the world's largest Buddhist temple Borobudur in Indonesia was discovered in the forested areas of the island of Java in the early nineteenth century and today has revived to become a place of worship and a tourist landscape calendar in the heart of a Muslim country. But perhaps few know about other great heritage of Buddhist Ajanta also be exploring how it happened in the early nineteenth century to today become a place of pilgrimage in India, where Buddhism have arisen and had disappeared.

Inside Structure

All the statues are carved from monolithic

In 1983,UNESCO agency of the United Nations classified Ajanta as cultural heritage of humanity. Ajanta is a Buddhist monastery consists of 29 perforated cave deep into the cliff forming the "temple" and "monastery". Cliff rock is basalt, a volcanic rock very hard. Of the 29 caves have three Top left unfinished.This is a certain combination of nature caves and shrines that were manually cut out of rock.

Cave's wall

Buddha Status on The Caves Wall

Architecture, paintings and sculptures in Ajanta cave that is done in the two periods are quite far apart. The first period extends from the second century BC to the third century BC and markedly influenced Buddhism Primitive (Therevada).

Reclining Buddha carved in the Ajanta Caves in Northern India,
dating to the 2nd century B.C

The decoration in this period is quite simple and less ornate, most especially does not have an icon that symbolizes the Buddha. Open the second period of the fifth century and influenced by Mahayana Buddhism, the construction period is short but has done a lot of cave has a large selection, with a more complex design, Decoration is rich and colorful. Ajanta caves may have been abandoned since the sixth century and discovered in 1819 by British Army Officer called John Smith. This is one of must see destinations.