landscape in indian - The heritage - Cave Ajanta

Ajanta Caves is known as a magnificent architectural complex which had been regarded as beautiful an outstanding representative of the period for Buddhism flourished in ancient India, from where Buddhism is striving to develop and begin wide.

Ajanta right in the area which had been regarded as the cradle of much religious importance, including Buddhism, the Ganges basin, which extends from the Deccan plateau. Based their stand on a platform about 76 meters high cliffs, so of course Ajanta caves have their own space large enough to contain a content architecture so magnificent. Also need a bit of mystery to herself, Ajatan located in wilderness forests in the Deccan plateau, below the line facing the river quietly Waghora, which fully address any benefits to become an important place in the development of Buddhism.

Ajanta cave-temple complex of 30 temples are carved into the cliff, all the arcs that make a big hug before the stream flows through. The cave-temple began to be built in the 2nd century BC and continued until the 9th century. So, like Chritmas Humphey said: "Here, in one day, we can see the whole history of Buddhist art."

All the temples located close together san, now calling the number of people, from temple to temple I XXX, in which the temple pagoda IX and X are the two works are the earliest artifacts from the time Andra dynasty. Most of the other cave temples were built, creating work in the Gupta dynasty Buddhism, from the fourth century to the VIII century. Andra dynasty began in 28 BC, lasted 460 years, a period of peace with strong growth of industry and commerce, with many new cities were built, are flourishing. The architecture of this period have reached the pinnacle of the industry, which is typical of the temple cave cave temples of IX and X.

Flow Buddhism gradually spread and development of a large area. Buy now, India is considered the land of Buddhism, an important place of pilgrimage for devout believers. However, along with the development, Buddhism split into many different schools. Since then, the homogeneous nature of Buddhism is not intact.

The traces of this temple is forever a testament to a flourishing Buddhist background were before, even today, and pure nature of Buddhist living space has changed how much processing failure.