Xiantong Temple

Xiantong Temple is the largest and oldest temple in Wutai Mountain, one of the five major Zen sites in Wutai Mountain, and one of the ten monasteries listed as a cultural landscape in the World Heritage List. It was built in the Yongping years of the Ming emperor in the East Han Dynasty (58-75), and most of the existing buildings are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Xiantong Temple is the largest and oldest temple in Wutai Mountain, one of the five major Zen sites in Wutai Mountain, and one of the ten monasteries listed as a cultural landscape in the World Heritage List. It was built in the Yongping period of the Ming Dynasty (58-75), and most of the existing buildings are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was built in the Yongping period of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (58-75), and most of the existing buildings are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Xiantong Temple, located on the north side of Taihuai Town, Wutai Mountain, built the earliest historical and largest temple in Wutai Mountain, the Buddha country. Time went back to the Yongping years of the East Han Dynasty (69 AD). After the completion of the first ancient temple in China, the two Tianzhu monks came to Wutai Mountain from Luoyang and built the first monastery of Wutai Mountain - Daqi Lingqi Temple (the name of Xiantong Temple), which is known as "the second ancient temple in China". The historical process of Wutai Mountain becoming a Buddhist holy place has been opened. Today, Xiantong Temple covers an area of more than 80,000 square meters, and more than 400 buildings, mostly the remains of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, become the largest mountain monastery. The three ancient buildings in Xiantong Temple are famous, the big Buddha hall with all wooden structure, the infinite hall with pure brick structure, and the bronze hall with all copper casting; the most exciting and eye-catching is the bronze hall. The imitation wooden square bronze hall cast in the Ming Wanli period (1609 AD) has two layers of heavy, high 8.3 meters, long 4.7 meters, wide 4.5 meters; the inside is a room, four walls are full of small Buddhas, and the central platform sits on the high 1 meter bronze Buddha; The bronze hall is made of 50 tons of copper, the exterior gold foil, the distant view, the glittering gold, the sparkling.

Wutaishan Xiantong Temple, one of the five Zen places in Wutai Mountain.

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Xiantong Temple, also known as "Daqi Lingqi Temple", was built in the Yongping years of the East Han Dynasty, has a history of nearly 2,000 years, several renovations, now Xiantong Temple is only a small part of the original temple, is the architecture and pattern of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The temple is towering in ancient trees, cigarettes lingering, seven halls on the central axis, majestic and solemn, and the pilgrims are endless.

Xiantong Temple is the first temple in Wutai Mountain, founded in the Yongping years of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, the first name of Daqi Lingqi Temple, Qing Kangxi 26 years (1687 AD), renamed Daxiantong Temple, it is one of the earliest Buddhist temples in China. The existing buildings are the scale of the Qing Dynasty, the temple covers an area of about 80,000 square meters, more than 400 various buildings, and most of them are buildings in the Ming and Qing periods. The hall and the room layout are strict, the central axis is clearly divided, and the hall is symmetrical. The central axis is arranged with 7 temples such as the land and water hall, the Great Wenshu Temple, the Great Xiongbao Temple, the Infinity Temple, the Millennium Wenshu Temple, the bronze hall and the back high hall. The bronze hall was cast in the Ming Wanli 38 years (1610 AD), sharing 100,000 pounds of copper, and is one of the best preserved bronze halls in China. On the central axis of the temple, the bronze tower in front of the temple stands, and the seven-fold temple cloth from south to north, in turn, the Guanyin Palace, the Dawenshu Palace, the Daxiong Palace, the Infinity Palace, the Millennium Wenshu Palace, the bronze palace, the Tibetan Jinglou, in addition, there are bell towers, monks and various matching temples. Catch up with the end of the thousand monks, but fortunately did not delay~ the thousand monks: refers to the fasting meeting of the thousand monks. The third volume of "Dazhidu Theory" ︰ "Yi Wang Shecheng, Finpo Siluo Wang Yoshiqiu permanent food, Finpo Siluo Wang death, this law is constantly." Since the north and south dynasties, the thousand monks have also been quite popular in China. But the so-called thousand monks, not limited to the number of thousands, is generally refers to the support of many monks. It is said that if there is a fasting master to provide a thousand monks, there must be a Luo Han to come to provide a confession, but Luo Han to provide, mostly the current monks, mixed in the public monks, I can not see the ordinary eyes. The scene is really spectacular, the first time I have a chance to see it, it is quite shocking~ especially the picture of the harmonious coexistence of monks and Taos, Tibetans and Hans, it is rare to see it~