Horseshoe Temple Grottoes

Tibet is always described as a holy land, not only because of its beauty but also its spirit that catches many travelers’ hearts. And the long history and exotic religion allures more and more tourists every year. You can see many tranquil villages and incense-wreathed temples hem in clusters of snow-capped mountains .Explore Tibet Team, a professional Tibet travel agency, introduces the oldest monastery- horseshoe Temple Grottoes to you.

Grotto is a type of Buddhist architecture, and it is often chiseled into cliffs. The Horseshoe Temple Grottoes is the architecture of the Tibet temple, which originally a Han Buddhism temple in Northern Liang Dynasty. It built in the Sixteen States Period and gradually changed into a Tibetan Buddhism temple later. It is located in Yugu Autonomous County of Northwest China’s Gansu Province but it is belong to architecture of the Tibet temple.
The Horseshoe Temple Grottoes consist of 7 small-scale and few upper, middle and lower Guanyin caves. North Matisi Grottos are the highlight of the entire Horseshoe Temple Grottoes which cut on the palisades of almost 100 meters The Horseshoe Temple Grottoes are decorated with painted sculptures, carvings and frescos and more than 500 statues and 200-square-killometer frescos are well preserved there, though they belong to different dynasties.
Tibet is considered to be the heaven of traveling by domestic and international tourists. Explore Tibet in depth! The Horseshoe Temple Grottoes has a great historical and cultural value.