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The Hanging Temple, a temple built into a cliff 75 meters (246 ft) above the ground near Mount Heng in Shanxi in 491 AD A hall and courtyard at Huayan Temple in Shanxi. Chongshan Temple (Shanxi) Huayan Temple (Datong) Pagoda of Fogong Temple; Puhua Temple; Qifo Temple; Shuanglin Temple; The Hanging Temple; Xuanzhong Temple; Yanqing Temple ...
Map of the West Lake in Hangzhou, China, with the location of Lingyin Temple Buddhist monks chanting at Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou, October 2010. Lingyin Temple (simplified Chinese: 灵隐寺; traditional Chinese: 靈隱寺; pinyin: Língyǐn Sì) is a prominent Chan Buddhist temple near Hangzhou that is renowned for its many pagodas and grottos. [1]
The following is a non-exhaustive list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, pagodas, grottoes, archaeological sites and colossal statues in China. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The Dafo Temple (Chinese: 大佛寺; pinyin: Dàfó Sì; literally Grand Buddha Temple) is a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.Located in Yuexiu District, Dafo Temple is a grand temple with a history of more than one thousand years and was built by Emperor Liu Yan in the Southern Han dynasty (917–971).
In the third year of the Xiaochang era (527) of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, Bodhidharma (达摩; dá mó), the 28th patriarch of Mahayana Buddhism in India, came to the Shaolin Temple. The Indian arrived as a Chan Buddhist missionary and traveled for decades throughout China before, settling on Mount Song in the 520s. [10]
Kaiyuan Temple (simplified Chinese: 开元寺; traditional Chinese: 開元寺; pinyin: Kāiyuán Sì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khai-gôan-sī) is a Buddhist temple located in West Street, Quanzhou, China, and is considered as the largest Buddhist temple in Fujian province with an area of 78,000 square metres (840,000 sq ft).
White Horse Temple (Chinese: 白馬 寺) is a Buddhist temple in Luoyang, Henan that, according to tradition, is the first Buddhist temple in China, having been first established in 68 AD under the patronage of Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han dynasty. [1] [2] [3]
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.