Shaolin Temple

Shaolin Temple is famous for Shaolin Kungfu (martial arts). The temple was built in 495, then Boddhidarma, an Indian monk credited with the founding of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, came to live here. At Shaolin he sat motionless for nine years facing a wall in a state of illumination. He was the first to practice what is now known as Shaolin martial arts. He also noticed that the monks were falling asleep during meditation and that their health was deteriorating, so he invented an exercise of eighteen movements, now known as the Eighteen Routines of Shaolin Martial Arts, imitating the pounce of the tiger, the climb of the monkey, and the jump of the leopard.
About 300 meters west of the Shaolin Temple is the Forest of pagodas which were built to keep the remains of the deceased abbots and other eminent monks.

Longmen Grottoes

Located along the banks on Yihe River in Luoyang, the Longmen Grottoes are an outstanding manifestation of human artistic creativity. It was listed as a world heritage by UNESCO in 2000.
Along the cliffs, there are more than 2100 niches, 2,800 inscribed stone tablets. Buddhist pagodas and nearly 110,000 Buddhist images and statues still exist today. These works, entirely devoted to the Buddhist religion, represent the high point of Chinese stone carving.

   White Horse Temple 

Founded in the year of 68 A.D., the White Horse Temple was the first Buddhist temple constructed  in China.