Top Ten Buddhist Temples in China

White Horse Temple is located 12 kilometers east of the old city of Luoyang City, Henan Province, Luolong District, within the town of Baima Temple. Founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty Yongping eleven years (68 AD), China's first ancient temple, the world-famous gamelan, is the introduction of Buddhism to China after the construction of the first government-run monasteries, Chinese Buddhism's "Ancestral Court" and "source of the release of" the name, more than 1900 years ago. The existing ruins and monuments were left in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. The temple has preserved a large number of Yuan Dynasty Boehmeria nivea dry lacquer statues, such as the Three Buddhas, two generals, eighteen Luohan, etc., which are precious.

Dazhaosi

Dazhaosi, located in the old city center of Lhasa, Bajiao Street, is a Tibetan Buddhist temple, is the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo built, Lhasa has the "Holy Land" reputation, and the statue of Buddha. Dazhao Temple has a history of more than 1300 years, in Tibetan Buddhism has the supreme status. Dazhao Temple is Tibet's most brilliant surviving building of the Tubo period, but also Tibet's earliest adobe building, and created a Tibetan-style Pingchuan style temple city council rules.

Famen Temple

Located in Fufeng County, ten kilometers north of the town of Falmen. Built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, started in the Northern Wei Dynasty, rose in the Sui Dynasty, flourishing in the Tang Dynasty, known as the "Royal Temple", because of the placement of Shakyamuni Buddha finger bone relics and become a Buddhist shrine of the country.

Guandi Temple

Xiezhou Guandi Temple is located in Xiguan, Xiezhou Town, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. It is located in the north of Silver Lake (Salt Pond), facing Zhongtiao Mountain with beautiful scenery. Changping Village, 10 kilometers southeast of Xiezhou, is the original home of Guan Yu, the Shu general of the Three Kingdoms, so the Xiezhou Guandi Temple is the ancestor of the martial arts temple.

Jin Ancestral Hall

Located in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, the Jin Ancestral Hall was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty in honor of Shouyu, the second son of King Wu of Zhou. Here the temple, pavilions, pavilions, bridges and trees reflect each other, surrounded by mountains and water, cultural relics, ancient trees, is a very beautiful scenery of ancient gardens.

The Temple of Confucius

Located in the center of the city of Qufu in Shandong Province, it is a group of buildings with oriental architectural colors and magnificent scale, and is known as one of the three major architectural complexes in ancient China along with the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Chengde Summer Resort in Hebei Province.

Labrang Monastery

Labrang Monastery, located in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, Xiahe County, the full name of the Tibetan language: "Kadan Xaju Dalji Zazhi Yisuqi with Luang", meaning with the joy of talking about repairing the Xingjixiang right temple. Abbreviation Zazhiqi Temple, generally known as Labrang Monastery. Labrang Monastery is a variation of the Tibetan language "pull chapter", meaning the living Buddha master's residence. It is one of the six major monasteries of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, and is known worldwide as the "World Tibetan Academy". In its heyday, the monks reached more than 4,000, opened to the public for tourism in 1980.

Shaolin Temple

Shaolin Temple is located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Songshan Mountain, five breasts under the peak, because it is located in the hinterland of the Songshan Mountain, the dense jungle of Shaolin Mountain, so the name "Shaolin Temple". Beginning in the Northern Wei Dynasty Taihe nineteen years (495 years), is the Xiaowen Emperor in order to place his admiration for the Indian monk Tremendous Venerable, in the capital city of Luoyang and the Songshan Mountain Shaoru mountain northern foothills edited into being. The Shaolin Temple's permanent hospitalization covers an area of about 57,600 square meters, and the current abbot is the 47th and 33rd heir of the Cao Dong Zheng Zong sect, Shamen Shi Yongxin.

Shaolin Temple is a world-famous Buddhist temple, the Zen ancestor of Chinese Buddhism, which occupies an important position in the history of Chinese Buddhism, and is known as the "world's first famous temple". Because of its successive generations of Shaolin monks dedicated research and development of Shaolin kung fu and famous all over the world, known as "the world's kung fu out of Shaolin, Shaolin kung fu a world" said.

Tal Temple

Tal Temple is located in Xining City, Qinghai Province, Huangshazhong County, Huangshazhong County, the southwest corner of the Lotus Mountain depression. Tal monastery compound according to the mountain building, by numerous halls, sutra halls, stupas, monasteries, etc., the layout is rigorous, architectural lofty, brilliant, magnificent, is China's famous Tibetan Buddhism Gelukpa one of the six major monasteries. Tal monastery is the highest school of Buddhism in Qinghai Province, now has four major colleges (sutra) of Hinayana, Tantric Buddhism, Wheel of Time, and Medical Ming.

Hanging Temple

Hanging Temple is located in Datong City, Shanxi Province, Hunyuan County, Hengshan Mountain, Jinlong Gorge on the west side of the Cuiping Peak between the crags, known as "Hanging Temple, half a day high, three horsetails hanging in the air," the slang, such as facing the abyss of the precipitous and famous. Built 1400 years ago in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, it is the only remaining unique temple in China where Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are united.

The Hanging Temple was originally called "Xuankongge", with "Xuan" taken from the teachings of Taoism, a traditional Chinese religion, and "Kong" from the teachings of Buddhism, and was later renamed "Hanging Temple" because the entire temple is suspended from a cliff, and in Chinese, "hanging" and "Xuan" have the same sound, hence the name.