Cultural Relics Protection Unit Information Project Content Protection Unit Name of the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes Location Bin County, Shaanxi Province Era Tang Category Grotto Temple Level Batch Third Batch National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit Number 49 Category Number 8 Approval Number Guofa [1988] No. 5 was approved on January 13, 1988. In 1956, the province allocated funds and the county People's Committee presided over the renovation of the Great Buddha Temple. On August 6, 1956, the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government announced that the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes were a provincial key cultural relic protection unit. From 1983 to 1985, the state invested 243,000 yuan to repair and paint the protective tower of the Great Buddha Temple. From 1986 to 1987, the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau allocated funds to remodel 9 statues of Wei Tuo, Jialan and Xiangu in the Great Buddha Temple, and framed the original 45 scrolls of fine ink line Buddhist paintings from the Ming Dynasty. In October 1992, the Cultural Relics Protection Technology Center of the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau and the Cultural Relics Bureau of the Bavarian State of Germany signed a technical agreement on repairing dangerous rocks, cracks, weathering, peeling, water seepage and other diseases in the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes. This maintenance project, which cost more than 2 million yuan, took 1993 to 1996 to complete. In June 1995, the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau invested another 92,000 yuan to drive in 125 spiral steel anchors to strengthen the roof of the Big Buddha Cave. Three 4-meter-long anchors were pushed into the top of the Bodhisattva and the neck of the Big Buddha. Riding Badin 26 roots.
In 2006, the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes were included in the preliminary list of the Silk Road Transnational Joint Application for World Cultural Heritage by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and the application process for the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes was officially launched. In July 2012, it was finally determined that China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan would jointly apply for the Silk Road World Heritage Project titled "Silk Road·Starting Section and Road Network of the Tianshan Corridor". The Great Buddha Temple Grottoes were re-designed. The finalized list of candidates has started the process of applying for World Heritage.
In February 2013, the Silk Road application text was jointly submitted by our country and the governments of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to the UNESCO World Heritage Center and was officially accepted. At this point, Silk Road projects including the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes have entered the international process of declaration. In order to ensure the effective protection of the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes and improve their technological protection and refined management level, the "Great Buddha Temple Grottoes Protection and Management Plan" was approved and implemented by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the "Great Buddha Temple Grottoes Protection Plan" and the "Great Buddha Temple Grottoes Comprehensive Information Monitoring and "Early Warning System Plan" will be revised in accordance with the opinions approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
In 2008, Bin County commissioned the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Research Institute and Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology to jointly conduct survey and design of the reinforcement project of the mirror platform of the Great Buddha Temple. In April 2009, the rescue and reinforcement plan was completed. In September 2009, it was recognized as a national cultural relic. The Bureau approved the rescue and reinforcement project plan for the mirror platform of the Grand Buddha Temple, and in April 2012, the project successfully passed the acceptance inspection.
Bin County hired a survey agency and the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Research Institute to conduct a detailed survey and monitoring of the dangerous rocks on the cliff face of the Dafo Temple Grottoes and the water seepage in the Dafo Temple Grottoes. The survey report and treatment plan have been completed and will be pending for national cultural relics Implemented after review and approval by the Bureau. The Shaanxi Cultural Relics Protection Research Institute and Northwest University jointly designed a dust removal plan for the three Buddha statues in the Great Buddha Grottoes. All iron gates such as Thousand Buddha Cave, Buddha Cave and Big Buddha Grotto have been changed to wooden fences, and they are also installed in Thousand Buddha Cave, Big Buddha Grotto and other caves. Wooden boardwalk and install cool light source lighting.
In the improvement of the grotto environment, Bin County hired the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Research Institute to design a project plan for the improvement of the environment inside and outside the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes. It completed the renovation of the square in the courtyard and the tile paving of the mirror platform and the demolition of the garden road in the courtyard. Greening and other environmental improvement work.
They selected the Big Buddha Grotto and the outdoor environment of the grotto as representatives to realize the monitoring functions of the cultural relics themselves and the cultural relics preservation environment, and provide a networked and intelligent real-time monitoring system for the heritage area.
The original archives of the Great Buddha Temple Grottoes have problems such as large number and chaotic classification. In order to facilitate search and research, the grotto management reclassified the files according to the requirements of the four archives. There are 86 main volumes, supplementary volumes and preparatory volumes, and established electronic files to upload to the Silk Road Archives System. Daily inquiries can be made through the general directory, and foreign experts can make inquiries through the English general directory.
With the theme of "The Silk Road is with us", Bin County uses newspapers and magazines, online media, party and government office systems, and urban passenger vehicles to promote it. It also promotes the project at Xi'an Xianyang International Airport and Fuyin Expressway. Set promotional slogans. At the same time, it has been widely publicized through various forms such as the signature event of tens of thousands of people applying for World Heritage, the "Five Entry" activities for applying for World Heritage (entering institutions, entering schools, entering factories and mines, entering communities, and entering rural areas), and the calligraphy and painting competition for applying for World Heritage, so that the public can understand world culture. heritage and create a good social environment for fellow citizens to protect historical relics.
At the 38th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting held in Doha, Qatar on June 22, 2014, China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan jointly applied for the "Silk Road: Chang'an- "Road Network of Tianshan Corridor" was successfully selected into the World Heritage List.