A famous temple in China, one of the top ten temples in China

The 4 most famous temples in China that everyone knows are still popular today.

Top 10 temples in China: White Horse Temple, Lingyin Temple, Shaolin Temple, Hanshan Temple, Longxing Temple, Qingjing Temple, Jokhang Temple, Reclining Buddha Temple, Taer Temple, Jinshan Temple.

1. White Horse Temple.

The White Horse Temple is located in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang City, Henan Province, and is known as the first ancient temple in China. The White Horse Temple is the first temple built by the government after Buddhism was introduced into China, and the construction of the White Horse Temple is closely connected with the famous Yongping Dharma-seeking in the history of Buddhism in China.

2. Lingyin Temple.

Also known as Yunlin Temple, it was founded in the first year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Indian monk Hui Li came to Hangzhou, saw the mountain peaks here are strange, and thought that it was hidden by the fairies, so he built a temple here and named it Lingyin.

3. Shaolin Temple.

Shaolin Temple is located in the northwest of Dengfeng County, Henan Province, 12 kilometers northwest of the foot of the Shaolin Mountain, under the high loss of the Wukong Belt Milk Peak, because the temple is located in the dense jungle of the Shaolin Mountain Yin, so it is named. Shaolin Temple has preserved more than 300 stone inscriptions since the Tang Dynasty, one of which is the imperial book tablet of Emperor Taizongwen records the historical sites of the thirteen monks of Shaolin Temple who bravely rescued Tang King Li Shimin.

4. Hanshan Temple.

Hanshan Temple was founded in 502 A.D. during the Liang Tianjian period, two hundred years later in the Tang Dynasty, according to legend, the Tang Dynasty monk Hanshan had lived in the temple, so it was renamed Hanshan Temple.

5. Longxing Temple.

Longxing Temple was founded in the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty and was originally known as Longzang Temple. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin decreed to cast the bronze Buddha in the Longzang Temple, and built the Great Compassion Pavilion, and then built the earth, a group of Song Dynasty buildings with the Great Compassion Pavilion as the main body successively sued the Qing Dynasty Kangxi, Qianlong years, and two large-scale repairs and additions.

6. Qingjing Temple.

The Purity Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Al Sukhazi, was founded in 1009 by Arab Muslims. The Qingjing Mosque is built in the form of West Asia, and is the oldest existing mosque in China with Arab-Islamic architectural style.

7. Jokhang Temple.

The original name was Jalan Sa, was built in the 7th century A.D. in the heyday of the Tubo Dynasty, the temple enshrined the 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni brought by Princess Wencheng from Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, and later the temple was renamed "Jokhang Temple".

8. Wat Pho.

The Reclining Buddha Temple is the Shifang Pujue Temple, which is located at the southern foot of Shouniu Mountain and the east side of Xiangshan Mountain in the north of Xishan in Beijing, 30 kilometers away from the city. The Reclining Buddha Temple was built in the Tang Zhenguan period, formerly known as Tushi Temple, also known as Shou'an Temple.

9. Taal Temple.

Ta'er Monastery is also known as Ta'er Monastery, named after the big silver pagoda built in the Dajinwa Temple to commemorate the founder of the Yellow Sect, Tsongkhapa, and falls in the Lianhua Mountain Pass in the southwest corner of Lushaer Town, Huangzhong County, which is the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug sect of Lamaism in China.

10. Jinshan Temple.

Jinshan Temple was formerly known as Zexin Temple, also known as Longyou Temple, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty gave the word "Jiangtian Temple", which is still used today. Although the name is varied, since the Tang Dynasty, people have commonly known as Jinshan Temple. The story of "The Legend of the White Snake" and the idiom "water floods the golden mountain" can be said to be a household name.