莫高窟导游词英语作文

　　Dear tourists

　　Hello, everyone. I'm your guide today. Today I'll show you the MogaoGrottoes in Dunhuang.

　　Welcome to visit here, you need to pay attention to: first, no lettering,second, no photos, third, no littering.

　　You see, that is our Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. It was listed in the UNESCOWorld Cultural Heritage list in December 1987. Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is thelargest and most complete Buddhist art treasure house in the world.

　　Mogao Grottoes is located 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang city. It issaid that it was built by a monk named lezun. It has a history of 1652 years. In366 A.D., lezun traveled eastward. One evening, he looked from Sanwei mountainto Mingsha mountain. When he saw that Mingsha mountain was golden, he felt thatit was a hint from the Buddha. It was the best place to practice. So he chiseledout the first cave here, and then painstakingly practiced. Later, after theexpansion of the past dynasties, the Mogao Grottoes formed today's scale.

　　The red nine story building you can see now is cave 96. The Maitreya statuein it is 33 meters high. It is the largest indoor Maitreya statue in the worldand the third largest Buddha in China after Leshan Buddha and RongxianBuddha.

　　Do these caves look like dense beehives? Although the Mogao Grottoes inDunhuang are called thousand Buddha Caves, they actually have only 492 caves.Cave 17 is a famous Sutra cave. It was discovered by a Taoist named Wang yuanleiin 1920__. But later, the British archaeologist Stein came to the Mogao Grottoesand even cheated and robbed many scriptures, which are still preserved in theBritish Museum.

　　You see, this is the famous fresco - nine color deer in cave 257. There isanother legend about the nine color deer: Once upon a time, a nine color deersaved a man in the Ganges River. The nine color deer told him: "you must nottell other people my address." The man agreed, but he didn't keep his promise.He told the king the address of the nine color deer. The king took some peopleto catch the nine color deer. Later, he learned the truth from the nine colordeer. The man was finally punished, covered with sores, and died in pain. Infact, the nine color deer is the previous life of Sakyamuni, the Buddha. It isalso a famous Bunsen story painting in the Mogao Grottoes. There are manyBuddhist story paintings like this in the Mogao Grottoes.

　　In cave 148, there is a reclining Buddha, 16 meters long, with eyesslightly closed, as if in a dream.

　　Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is the crystallization of ancient people's wisdom,but also our pride.

　　This is the end of today's visit. Thank you!