Three images of Ksitigabha and the Ten Kings were recently discovered among the cliff engravings at Pusayan, Pusawan and Shiluogou in Anyue. The images contain different contents and compositions but are all early visual works created from the 10th to the middle of the 11th century depicting Ksitigabha and the Ten Kings. What is more, these engravings exhibit new elements and compositional styles that are rarely seen in similar images from the Sichuan regions. Because the basic content and composition of Buddhist art thematically focused on Ksitigabha and the Ten Kings quickly became organized around a common standard, it can be concluded that the images from the cliff engravings in Sichuan and similar images in Dunhuang cave murals and in the paper, silk and hemp paintings found in the Dunhuang Library Cave all find a common origin in the Buddhist art of Chengdu. Versions of these artworks from Sichuan evince rich detail and relatively intricate composition, while images depicting the same theme that were separately rendered in Dunhuang and the surrounding regions were created based on a relatively unified draft.
