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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.
Bounded approximately by Hamilton E. Holmes Drive on the east, Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway on the north, Interstate 285 on the west, and Interstate 20 on the south 33°46′19″N 84°29′02″W / 33.7719°N 84.4839°W / 33.7719; -84.4839 ( Collier Heights Historic
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 ...
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 .
[4] [5] Although it is the oldest fully wooden pagoda in China, the oldest existent densely-eaved pagoda is the 6th century Songyue Pagoda (made of bricks) and many much older stone pagodas exists in the entire North China Plain (e.g. the Zushi Pagoda of the Foguang Temple and the Four Gates Pagoda of Jinan); the oldest existent wooden ...
The Mahavira Hall of the Huayan Temple in Datong was originally built in the Liao dynasty, but was rebuilt in 1140 during the Jin dynasty. It is nine-room wide, five-room deep and covers an area of 1,559-square-metre (16,780 sq ft). [ 3 ]
The area is due east of Atlanta and spans 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) reaching from the historic commercial center of Lithonia to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, including several sites in between, including Panola Mountain, Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, and the historic Flat Rock Community with the Flat Rock Archives. The ...
The monastery at daybreak. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was founded on March 21, 1944, by 20 monks from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The Archdiocese of Atlanta and silent film star Colleen Moore donated 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) of land, and the first monks lived in a barn while they built (by themselves) what would become known as the "pine board" monastery.