Stone sculptures at Longmen, a complex of Buddhist cave temples ten miles (sixteen kilometers) south of Luoyang, in China’s Henan province, begin in 494.
The fine Buddhist sculptures in the Longmen complex’s Binyang cave, completed in 523, represent highly spiritualized, ethereal-looking figures whose forms are draped in elegantly defined cascading robes.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered."
