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White Horse Temple (Chinese: 白馬 寺) is a Buddhist temple in Luoyang, Henan that, according to tradition, is the first Buddhist temple in China, having been first established in 68 AD under the patronage of Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han dynasty. [1][2][3] The site is just outside the walls of the ancient Eastern Han capital, some 12–13 ...
Style. Chinese architecture. Completed. 242. (242) The Longhua Temple (simplified Chinese: 龙 华 寺; traditional Chinese: 龍 華 寺; pinyin: Lónghuá Sì; Shanghainese: Lon-ngu-zy; alternatively Lunghwa Temple; literally "Dragon Flower Temple ") is a Buddhist temple dedicated to the Maitreya Buddha in Shanghai.
Mount Qingcheng (Chinese: 青城山; pinyin: Qīngchéng Shān) is a sacred Taoist mountain in Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It is considered one of the birthplaces of Taoism [1] and one of the most important Taoist religious sites in China. In Taoist mythology, it was the site of the Yellow Emperor 's studies with Ning Fengzi.
The temple is located near China National Highway 108 in Tanzhesi Town, Mentougou District, Beijing. At one time, it was one of the most important temples in China. Built in the Jin Dynasty (266–420), it has an age of around 1,700 years. Tanzhe Temple is one of the oldest temples in Beijing.
Plan of the Temple of Confucius. The temple complex is among the largest in China, it covers an area of 16,000 square metres and has a total of 460 rooms. Because the last major redesign following the fire in 1499 took place shortly after the building of the Forbidden City in the Ming dynasty, the architecture of the Temple of Confucius resembles that of the Forbidden City in many ways.
Traditional Chinese. 報恩廣孝禪寺. Transcriptions. Guangxiao Temple (Chinese: 光孝寺) is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Guangzhou, the capital of China 's Guangdong Province. [1] As the special geographical position, Guangxiao Temple often acted as a stopover point for Asian missionary monks in the past.
The Fayuan Temple, originally named the Minzhong Temple, was first built in 645 during the Tang dynasty by Li Shimin (Emperor Taizong), [1] and later rebuilt in the Zhengtong era (1436–1449) of the Ming dynasty. Emperor Taizong founded the temple to commemorate his soldiers who died in his campaign against Goguryeo.
The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years. [11][12] Prior to the unification of China by the First Emperor in 221 BC, Beijing had been for centuries the capital of the ancient states of Ji and Yan. It was a provincial center in the earliest unified empires of China, Qin and Han.