Both the north wall and the south wall of the corridor in Mogao Cave 464 at Dunhuang have two Chinese-styled Bodhisattva images with inscriptions.The four lines of the inscription on the right side of the south wall describe the appearance of the Fifth Stage Bodhisattva and the four lines on the left side tell of the appearance of the Fourth Stage Bodhisattva.The nine lines on the left side of the north wall relate the ornaments of the Tenth Stage Bodhisattva.So these inscriptions are the annotations for each Bodhisattva,and the image on the right side of the north wall can be inferred as the Ninth Stage Bodhisattva.It is evident that the three Uighur inscriptions are quoted from the Uighur version of Altun Yaruq translated by ngqo S li Tutung.This fact,together with the Uighur manuscripts and other Uighur inscriptions in the cave,demonstrates that the corridor and front chamber of cave 464 were constructed by Uighurs at the end of the Yuan dynasty,while the paintings of the back chamber,which are earlier than those of the front chamber and corridor,would have been created in the early Yuan dynasty.
