Lebagou Rock Paintings

Lebagou Rock Paintings located on the bank of the Tongtian River in the region of Yushu Prefecture. Walk alone the small mountain path on the bank of Tongtian River to come here and the noise and grandness of Tongtian River contracting to the quietness and holiness of the Lebagou Rock Paintings will give you to two totally different experience. Lebagou Rock Paintings are caved on the rock facing the river and is lying at the entrance of the Lebagou ravine. The verdant plants here can not hide the mysterious atmosphere diffused by the Rock Paintings and the numerous Mani stones that scatters everywhere in the ravine. From the Sakyamuni figure made in the late period of Tang Dynasty at the entrance of the ravine to the Mani stones carved now, you will see the whole caving history of the Tibetan religion.

'Lebagou' in Tibetan means beautiful ditch. In the ditch, clear brooks run murmuring. And in the dense trees, countless 'Mani' stones (the stones on which were carved Buddhist Scripture) were everywhere. In addition to the Mani Stones, there are 108 Buddhist pagodas and many rock paintings here, which can be still in Lebagou ditch expressed strong religion culture atmosphere with the vivid figures of Buddhists, Bodhisattva pilgrims and animals etc. These paintings expressed a identified in spite of rains and winds of years.

Most of the rock paintings found in Qinghai were animals, but only the rock paintings strong art style of Hans Buddhism in Tang Dynasty.