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Hanging Temple, located in Hunyuan County, Datong City, Shanxi Province, China, is a temple integrating Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. It has a history of more than 1,400 years. [2] The entire temple was built into a cliff face on the west side of Jinxia Gorge, approximately 75 meters (246 feet) above the ground.
Dailuoding (simplified Chinese: 黛螺顶; traditional Chinese: 黛螺頂; pinyin: Daìluódǐng) is a Buddhist temple located in on Mount Wutai of Taihuai Town, in Wutai County, Shanxi, China. [1] The temple has been listed among the first group of National Key Buddhist Temples in Han Chinese Area in 1983.
Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China.It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of 1,040 metres (3,410 ft) and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east.
While periodically destroyed and rebuilt, this temple has an uninterrupted history from Han times to the present day. [1] During times of occupation by non-Han Chinese people, worship to Hengshan was done at the Beiyue Temple in Quyang. Another temple of the area is the famous Hanging Temple, built more than 1,500 years ago into a cliff near ...
The Jinci or Jin Temple (晉祠) is the most prominent temple complex in Shanxi, China. It is located 16 miles (25 km) southwest of Taiyuan at the foot of Xuanweng Mountain at the Jin Springs. It was founded about 1,400 years ago and expanded during the following centuries, resulting in a diverse collection of more than 100 sculptures ...
Shanxi architecture, or Shansi architecture, or Jin architecture, refers to the architectural style of the Shanxi province in northern China. Shanxi has preserved numerous ancient architectures scattered throughout the province. All of the three remaining wooden structures preserved from Tang dynasty in China are found in
The site was heavily featured, as was the rest of Shanxi province, in the settings visited by the character The Destined One from the globally renowned AAA game Black Myth: Wukong. Tourism greatly increased as the grotto went from the least visited of the major three grottoes from the Northern Wei to its most visited within a few weeks of the ...
Nanchan Temple (Chinese: 南 禪 寺; pinyin: Nánchán Sì) is a Buddhist temple located near the town of Doucun on Mount Wutai, Shanxi, China.Nanchan Temple was built in 782 during China's Tang dynasty, and its Great Buddha Hall is currently China's oldest preserved timber building extant, as wooden buildings are often prone to fire and various destruction.