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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 ...
[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 ...
Traditional Chinese architecture are mostly of wooden structure, yet there are no wooden architectures before Tang dynasty persevered in China. However, some grottoes and tomb paintings and other related archaeological evidences elucidate the ancient architectural styles of Shanxi before the Tang dynasty.
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