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The exact year Yunju Temple was built is unknown; however construction started during the Northern Qi dynasty (550 CE – 570 CE). [1] [note 1] Around 611 CE, a high priest named Jingwan (? - 639 CE) made a vow to engrave Buddhist sutras on stone steles to insure Buddhism's future survival because of the challenges Chinese Buddhism had recently faced during the anti-Buddhist campaigns of ...
The temple situated in the Mulberry garden of landlord Huang Shougong (黄守恭) who was said to dream of a monk begging land from him for building a temple. He donated his garden and changed it into a temple with the name of "Lotus Temple" (莲花寺). In 738 in the Tang dynasty, it was renamed "Kaiyuan Temple", which is still in use now. [1] [4]
The Dafo Temple or Great Buddha Temple (Chinese: 大佛寺; pinyin: Dàfó Sì) is a Buddhist temple in Zhangye, Gansu, China, notable for its gigantic reclining Buddha statue made around 1100 during the Western Xia period, which is thirty-five metres long. After a restoration project in 2005–06, the Temple now attracts thousands of visitors.
Temple of Bao Gong in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Night view of the Dalongdong Baoan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan. Chinese temple incense burner. Chinese temple architecture refer to a type of structures used as place of worship of Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, or Chinese folk religion, where people revere ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors. They ...
Cao'an Temple seen from the south, with Huabiao Hill in the background. Cao'an (Chinese: 草庵; pinyin: Cǎo'ān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chháu-am; lit. 'thatched nunnery' [1]) is a temple in Jinjiang, Fujian, Luoshan Subdistrict . Originally constructed by Chinese Manichaeans, it was considered by later worshipers to be a Buddhist temple.
The temple was originally built in 773 by Li Yi (李椅), an official in the Tang Empire (618–907). The present version was completed in 1851 in the reign of Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). In April 1941, Fuzhou was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army, the temple was used as a warehouse for parking cars and storing ...
He studied the Tiantai doctrines in Guoqing Temple on Mount Tiantai introduced by Lu Chun, prefectural governor of Ningbo, Zhejiang. One year later, Saichō returned to Japan where he founded the Tendai school, based on the Tiantai teachings. [1] Since then, the Guoqing Temple has been regarded as the cradle of the Tendai school in Japan. [4] [5]
A view of the inner yard, with original buildings and pingfang. The phenomenon of decadence aggravated after the Communist takeover of Beijing in 1949. In August 1966, the temples were attacked by the Red Guards, who evacuated the lamas from the area and reorganised the buildings, including dormitories, stables, warehouses, and shrines outside the main temples, assigning them to Danwei.