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Dougong inside the East Hall timber hall of Foguang Temple, built in 857 during the Tang dynasty Dougong brackets on an Eastern Han (25–220 CE) era architectural model of a watchtower A stone-carved relief above a cave entrance of the Yungang Grottoes (Shanxi province) showing an imitation of dougong brackets, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE) Stone pillars made in imitation of wooden ...
Foguang Temple (Chinese: 佛光寺) is a Buddhist temple located five kilometres from Doucun, Wutai County, Shanxi Province of China. The major hall of the temple is the Great East Hall, built in 857 AD, during the Tang dynasty (618–907). According to architectural records, it is the third earliest preserved timber structure in China.
This includes the main hall of Nanchan Temple and the East Hall of Foguang Temple, built in 782 and 857, respectively. They were discovered in 1937 and 1938 by a team of architectural historians including the prominent early 20th-century historian Liang Sicheng .
Later architectural historians Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, Mo Zongjiang, discovered that the Great East Hall of Foguang Temple on Mount Wutai in Shanxi dated to 857. [41] The ground floor of this monastic hall measures 34 by 17.66 m (111.5 by 57.9 ft). [42] The main hall of nearby Nanchan Temple on Mount Wutai was later dated to 782. [43]
The three preserved Tang architectures are Foguang Temple and Nanchan Temple in Mount Wutai, Five Dragons Temple in Ruicheng County. Among these three surviving Tang architectures, Foguang Temple is the best preserved, partly due to its remote location outside of the central areas surrounded by the five mountains of Mount Wutai .
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The Mahavira Hall is modeled on the East Hall of Foguang Temple on Wutai Mountain. [1] The wood of dalbergia odorifera came from Laos, with copper tiles on the roofs. [1] A total of more than 180 tons of anti-corrosion alloy copper are used. [1]
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