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The oldest temple in China is the White Horse Temple in the Eastern Han Dynasty, located in Luoyang, Henan Province.
White Horse Temple, located in Henan Province Luoyang old city east of 12 kilometers, was founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty Yongping eleven years (68 years), is the first temple built after the introduction of Buddhism into China, after the establishment of the White Horse Temple, the Chinese "monastery" is generally called "temple", the White Horse Temple is therefore considered to be the birthplace of Chinese Buddhism, there is the "ancestral garden" and "the source of interpretation" of Chinese Buddhism. White Horse Temple covers an area of about 200 acres, the temple preserves a large number of Yuan Dynasty dry lacquer statues such as the three Buddhas, two heavenly generals, eighteen Arhats, etc., precious, is one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in China.
The original building scale of the White Horse Temple is extremely majestic, and has been rebuilt many times in the past dynasties, but because of repeated wars, several rises and falls, there is not much left of the ancient building, and the people have carried out many repairs in order to preserve this famous cultural monument. There are five major halls and four courtyards and east and west wings. In front is the mountain gate, and the mountain gate is three arches side by side.
Outside the mountain gate, a pair of stone lions and a pair of stone horses, separate left and right, there are two monk tombs of Morteng and Zhu Flange on the east and west sides of the mountain gate. The five major halls from south to north are the Tianwang Palace, the Big Buddha Palace, the Daxiong Palace, the Receiving Hall and the Pilu Palace. There are statues in each hall, and most of them are works of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
The Pilu Hall is on the Qingliang Terrace, and the Qingliang Platform is the place where the Buddhist scriptures are translated by Mo Teng and Zhu Falang. The east and west wings are symmetrical. The whole building is grand and solemn, and the layout is rigorous.
In addition, there are more than 40 inscriptions, which are of great value for studying the history of the temple.
About 30 meters east of the mountain gate of the White Horse Temple, there is a thirteen-story Qiyun Pagoda, which penetrates into the sky. Qiyun Pagoda was built in the period of the Five Dynasties, originally a wooden tower, and burned down when the Jin soldiers invaded at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. This tower was rebuilt during the Dading period of the Jin Dynasty, and it has a history of more than 800 years.
In 1961, the White Horse Temple was designated as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and in 1977, the White Horse Temple Cultural Relics Depository was established. Now, there are dozens of monks in the White Horse Temple, which has been officially opened for domestic and foreign tourists to visit.
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On the north side of the Great White Pagoda in the central area of Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province in the Central Plains Region, at the foot of the Bodhisattva Peak, it is the oldest temple in the Buddhist holy land of Wutai Mountain. Because the peak of the mountain where the temple is located resembles the cloud vulture mountain where the Buddha said, it is called "Dafu Vulture Temple". According to legend, Xiantong Temple was built in the 11th year of Yongping (68 years) of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it has been more than 1900 years ago.
In 1983, it was designated as a national key temple in the Han area. Daxiong Treasure Hall.
Xiantong Temple is the largest temple in Wutai Mountain, covering an area of more than 80,000 square meters and more than 400 halls. Most of the existing buildings were rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties. On the bell tower in front of the temple, there is a large bronze bell called the Netherworld, also called the long bell of the ringing bell, which was cast in the Ming Qi period (1621-1627).
This is the largest bell in the temples of Wutai Mountain, weighing 9,999.5 catties. On the central axis of the temple, there are seven halls in a row, which are arranged in turn as the Guanyin Palace, the Manjushri Palace, the Big Buddha Palace, the Immeasurable Palace, the Thousand Bowl Palace, the Bronze Palace, the Hou Gao Palace, the monk's house corridor room is arranged on both sides, neatly and uniformly. Wuliang Hall is a dome-style building built with blue bricks in the Ming Dynasty, there is no eaves corridor around, there are no beams and pillars in the hall, it is also called the beamless hall, it is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese architectural art.
There is a large bronze statue of Pilu Buddha inside, taking the meaning of immeasurable Buddhism, so it is called "immeasurable hall".
The bronze hall was built in the 34th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1606), according to legend, Master Miaofeng raised 100,000 catties of copper from 10,000 households in 13 provinces in China, and pasted gold inside and outside. The hall is nine feet wide, eight feet deep, and more than one zhang high. The upper layer has six lattice fans on each of the four sides, and the lower layer has eight on each of the four sides.
There are Buddha statues cast on the inner wall of the lattice fan, arranged layer by layer, known as ten thousand Buddhas. There were originally five copper towers in front of the copper hall, two of which are still existing, and the remaining three were stolen by the Japanese army that invaded China.
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The oldest temple in China is the White Horse Temple.
It was founded in the 11th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (68 AD).
It is located 12 kilometers east of the old city of Luoyang, Henan Province.
It is the first ancient temple in China, the world's famous Garan, is the first temple built after Buddhism was introduced into China, and has the name of "ancestral garden" and "Shiyuan" of Chinese Buddhism, which has a history of more than 1900 years. The existing ruins and monuments are left in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The temple preserves a large number of Yuan Dynasty dry lacquer statues such as the three Buddhas, the two heavenly generals, the eighteen Arhats, etc., which are precious.
In 1961, the White Horse Temple was announced by the People's Republic of China as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. In 1983, it was identified as a key temple of Chinese Buddhism in China. In January 2001, the White Horse Temple was named the first batch of AAAA-level scenic spots by the National Tourism Administration.
Famous scenic spots: Buddha Hall of All Nations, Qiyun Pagoda, Qingliangtai.
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White Horse Temple, of course.
Legend has it that the emperor of the Han Dynasty had a dream in which a monk walked in front of him on a white horse. The next day, he sent people to build the White Horse Temple. )
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The position of the White Horse Temple in Buddhism is unshakable, not only because it is the first Buddhist temple, but also because of its unique cultural status and the promotion of Buddhism's integration into the Central Plains. Although the White Horse Temple was constantly destroyed in the later wars, now, the White Horse Temple has been well protected and has been rated as the first batch of 4A-level scenic spots.
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Chinese temples originated from the Buddhist architecture of Stupa in India, which became popular during the Northern Wei Dynasty. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Buddhism flourished, and temples were built on a large scale. According to the record of Luoyang Jialan, there are more than 1,000 temples inside and outside Luoyang City, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
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The earliest temple in China is the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, which has a history of more than 1,900 years and is revered as the "Shiyuan" and "Ancestral Garden" of Chinese Buddhism. With the development of Buddhism in China, more and more Buddhist temples were built.
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The earliest temple in ancient times began to rise from the Qin Dynasty, and the name of this temple was the White Horse Temple.
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The oldest temple in China is the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, Henan Province, which was founded in the 11th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (68 AD), has a history of more than 1,900 years, is the first ancient temple in China, and is the first temple built by Buddhism in the interior of China.
Henan Luoyang White Horse Temple is located 12 kilometers east of the old city of Luoyang, Henan Province, the world-famous Jialan, known as the "ancestral garden" and "interpretation source" of Chinese Buddhism. In the seventh year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (64 AD), Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han Ming Dynasty sent an envoy to the Western Regions to pray for Buddhism because of his dream of gold at night. In 67 A.D., the Han envoy and the two high monks of India, Jiaye Moteng and Zhu Falan, arrived in Luo with white horses carrying Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues, and Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty bowed down to greet them.
In 68 A.D., Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty decreed to build a monastery outside the Yongmen Gate in Luoyang, in order to remember the merits of the White Horse Sutra, so the name of the monastery is the White Horse Temple.
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The earliest temple in China is the White Horse Temple in Luoyang.
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The temple is a treasure trove of art in our country, and it is a symbol of our country's long history and culture.
How much is impossible to calculate. But I still know the top ten famous temples in China: White Horse Temple, Lingyin Temple, Shaolin Temple, Hanshan Temple, Longxing Temple, Qingjing Temple, Daxiangguo Temple, Reclining Buddha Temple, Taal Temple, Tashilhunpo Temple.
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World natural cultural heritage, the first of China's four famous temples - Lingyan Temple.
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The oldest surviving building in China - the main hall of Nanchan Temple.
Wutai Mountain, a holy place for Buddhism, has many monasteries, most of which are concentrated around Taihuai Town. In the col outside Nantai hides the oldest surviving building in China - the main hall of Nanchan Temple.
Nanchan Temple was discovered by Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin during a large-scale investigation of ancient Chinese architecture in the 30s, and very little of ancient Chinese architecture has survived because of its many wooden structures. There are only 4 Tang Dynasty buildings in the country, all of which are in Shanxi.
Nanchan Temple is located in the vicinity of Lijiazhuang, Yangbai Township, 22 kilometers southwest of Wutai County, 7 miles away from Dongye Town. Step into Lijiazhuang, climb an earth cliff along a loess slope road, and you can see the Nanchan Temple standing here.
The exact building age of Nanchan Temple can not be verified, during the investigation, Lin Huiyin saw a line of words on the girder of the main hall of Nanchan Temple, take a closer look, it is recorded that this hall was built in the second year of Tang Jianzhong (780 AD), which is 75 years earlier than the east hall of Foguang Temple in Wutai Mountain (the first Tang Dynasty wooden building found by Liang Lin and his wife), and has a history of more than 1200 years. For a time, the main hall of Nanchan Temple became the only physical copy of the Tang Dynasty building, although several Tang Dynasty buildings were found later, but the main hall of Nanchan Temple is still the oldest, and it occupies an important position in the history of Chinese architecture.
Nanchan Temple sits in the north to the south, there are the main buildings such as the mountain gate, the dragon king hall, the Bodhisattva hall and the big Buddha hall, enclosing a quadrangle in the form of a courtyard, the scale is not large.
The big Buddha hall of Nanchan Temple, the appearance is majestic, the outline is beautiful, the shape is handsome, and it is simple. The main hall is wide and deep, the single eaves rest the mountain roof, there is a spacious platform in front of the hall, there is a strong bucket arch on the column, supporting the eaves, there is no column in the hall, the four rafters reach the front and rear eaves columns, the beam frame structure is concise and the roof folds gently, indicating that the building technology of the Tang Dynasty in our country has a very high level, and has been popularized to the remote mountain villages.
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The oldest existing temple is Luoyang White Horse Temple, founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty Yongping 11 years (AD 68), has a history of more than 1900 years, is the first ancient temple in China, is the first temple built by Buddhism into the interior of our country.
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Kumarosh Temple, was built in the first year of Later Liang Linjia (389 years), the earliest extant, there is no one.
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The White Horse Temple is the best-preserved and oldest temple in modern times.
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Zhongyue Temple, more than 3,000 years ago!
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Putong Temple, 67 A.D., if you don't believe it, go and search it yourself.
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In the eleventh year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (68 AD), Luoyang White Horse Temple.
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