Bingling Temple Grottoes

The Bingling Temple is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. It lies just north of where the Yellow River empties into the .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: Buddhist caves and sculptures in Yongjing County, Gansu, China
  • Also known as: “Bingling Cave-Temple Complex”, “Bingling Si”, “Bingling Temple”, and “炳灵寺”

Bingling Temple Grottoes

Latitude
35.81043° or 35° 48′ 38″ north
Longitude
103.04834° or 103° 2′ 54″ east
Open location code
8P75R26X+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2967439405
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q259336
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Wu Chinese—“Bingling Temple Grottoes” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Bingling Tenplua”
  • Catalan: “Coves de Binglingsi”
  • Chinese: “炳灵寺石窟”
  • Chinese: “炳靈寺石窟”
  • Czech: “Chrám Ping-ling”
  • Dutch: “Binglingtempel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “معبد بينجلينج”
  • French: “Binglingsi”
  • French: “temple Bingling”
  • German: “Bingling-Tempel”
  • Hebrew: “מקדש בינגלינג”
  • Indonesian: “Candi Bingling”
  • Indonesian: “Kuil Bingling”
  • Italian: “Grotte del tempio Bingling”
  • Japanese: “炳霊寺石窟”
  • Japanese: “炳霊寺石窟寺院”
  • Korean: “빙링시 석굴”
  • Macedonian: “Пештерски храм Бинглинг”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Binglingtempelet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bingling-tempelet”
  • Norwegian: “Binglingtempelet”
  • Persian: “معبد بینگ‌لینگ”
  • Polish: “Świątynia Bingling”
  • Slovenian: “Jamski tempelj Bingling, Jongdžang”
  • Spanish: “Templo de Bingling”
  • Vietnamese: “Chùa Bình Linh”
  • Wu Chinese: “炳灵寺石窟”

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