Ellora: the Kailasa temple and the caves of three faiths

At Ellora, Buddhist, Hindu and Jain communities cut 34 temples and monasteries side by side into a basalt escarpment over four centuries. The centrepiece, the Kailasa temple, was carved downwards out of the hillside in the 8th century under the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I, a whole temple with courtyards and towers made by removing rock rather than building. The site shows three religions sharing one sacred landscape.