Zhangye safeguards Dafo Temple with technology

The Sutras Exhibition Hall at Zhangye Dafo Temple in Northwest China's Gansu province. [Photo by Yang Xiaoyu/chinadaily.com.cn]

Wang said that a project involving digitizing the temple's immovable cultural relics is afoot. "It's about scanning and recording the details of all the wooden structures of the temple," he said.

"We plan to build a digital exhibition space using all the data we have collected about the temple's architecture, scriptures and murals, and it will be open to the public next October at the latest," Wang added.