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[[File:Longmen-met.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A section of stone wall carvings from the Longmen Caves, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
The Longmen Caves are, after [[Dunhuang]], likely the most famous set of Buddhist cave-temples in China. The thirteen hundred caves and niches at the site, stretching along both sides of a river for roughly a kilometer, were carved chiefly in the 5th to 7th centuries.
The Longmen Caves are, after [[Dunhuang]], likely the most famous set of Buddhist cave-temples in China. The thirteen hundred caves and niches at the site, stretching along both sides of a river for roughly a kilometer, were carved chiefly in the 5th to 7th centuries.