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The Mogao caves were dug out along rock cliffs on the outskirts of Dunhuang beginning in the fourth century. Designed as spaces for Buddhist meditation and worship, such caves continued to be created at Dunhuang until the fourteenth century, by which time they had also become a destination for Buddhist pilgrimages. Buddhist paintings and sculptures cover the walls and ceilings of the hundreds of chambers making up the Mogao caves. 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