Introduction to the Seventeenth Cave: The main image is the Third Buddha, with the seated Maitreya in the middle, 15.6 meters high, and the small image in the cave is larger and more aggressive. There are carved niches on the east and west walls, with seated statues in the east and standing statues in the west. The Buddhist niche on the east side of the bright window in the 13th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (489 AD) was added later.

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