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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.
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 ...
While the East Hall of Foguang Temple features seven types of bracket arms in its construction, the 11th-century Pagoda of Fogong Temple features fifty-four. [45] Remnants of the Great Wall of Qi on Dafeng Mountain, Changqing District, Jinan, which was once part of the ancient State of Qi during the Warring States period (475–221 BC).
Fo Guang Shan (FGS) (Chinese: 佛光山; pinyin: Fó guāng shān; lit. 'Buddha's Light Mountain') is an international Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist organization and monastic order based in Taiwan that practices Humanistic Buddhism whose roots are traced to the Linji school of Chan Buddhism.
MD 99 east (Old Frederick Road) to US 29 south – Woodstock: Western terminus of MD 99: Sykesville: 34.78: 55.97: MD 851 north (West Friendship Road) – Sykesville: Southern terminus of MD 851; to Main Street: Carroll: 36.19: 58.24: Springfield Avenue (MD 851 south) – Downtown Sykesville: Northern terminus of MD 851: Eldersburg: 38.43: 61.85
It reaches Park Hall, where MD 5 intersects MD 489 (Park Hall Road). [1] [2] View north along MD 5 in Scotland in southern St. Mary's County. Past MD 489, the route turns to the west and heads through a mix of woods, farms, and homes. It heads to Great Mills, where it briefly becomes a divided highway at the intersection with MD 246 (Great ...
Woodstock was founded as a mining town based around its Granite quarries. The B&O railroad ran through the area with a station built in 1835 for granite deliveries. The postal community was named "Davis Tavern" when its first post office opened in 1836. Caleb Davis and Peter Gorman were early B&O contractors. Gorman married Elizabeth Browne of ...
View east at the west end of MD 99 at MD 32 near West Friendship Old Frederick Road was the original 18th-century highway between Baltimore and the Mount Airy area. The highway, which was mostly built along the height of land between the Patapsco and Patuxent watersheds, was replaced by the more southern Baltimore and Fredericktown Turnpike ...