Tibet Ali Dongga Grottoes

Tibet ali dongga grottoes site is located in western Tibet ali region zada county town more than 30 kilometers north of the village of dongga, the altitude of 4100 meters or so. Tibet Guge era of religious art remains more. Mainly have, guge kingdom ruins of the white temple and red temple in the mural, zhada tolin temple mural, dongga piyang cave site mural, zhada kazhe nerakang cave mural and so on. Relevant archaeological information, DongGa grottoes is the western Tibet after Hiroshima early buddhist cultural revival of one of the main art remains, is the existing ancient kingdom of google grottoes in the largest scale, is the highest elevation found, the most area of mural painting plateau grottoes group, but also is the western Tibet better preserved, the content of one of the richer grottoes mural paintings.

DongGa grotto murals in addition to the common images of Buddha, bodhisattva, - god, mandala, etc., is the bitterness of animals, plants and geometric decorative text, quite characteristic, some scholars at home and abroad on its grotto murals also made a complete description and extensive research. From the point of view of art iconography, Donggak Grottoes murals in the "Rex" image, there is no systematic collection, classification, analysis, its artistic style is also less in-depth, detailed analysis and research. Dongga Grottoes murals in the Rex image is mainly concentrated in the Dongga Grottoes No. 1 to Cave No. 1, the history of the rich variety, early thought of diverse.

DongGa Grottoes No. 1 to No. 1 grotto cave door open in the south wall, by the southeast and northwest four walls and the top of the east grottoes of the algal well composed of the southeast and northwest four walls of the wall paintings in most of the mandala, the story of the Buddha, a number of small Buddha combined arrangement, double body statues, offerings to the Buddha, monks and lay people to listen to the law and other content. The grottoes of the algal well is "bucket four sets of bucket" image, *** have nine layers, mainly lotus patterns, various stupas, a single animal images, the beast, the sun and the moon Lianzhu two continuous patterns, abstract geometric patterns, geometric patterns, leaves, there are red, brown, orange, blue, white five-color combination of curtains made of colorful ribbons, a variety of gestures of the Buddha's small arrangement of combinations, The colorful patterns such as various kinds of Rexes.