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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.
The White Horse Pagoda (simplified Chinese: 白马寺; traditional Chinese: 白馬寺; pinyin: Báimǎ Sì, Wade-Giles: Paima szu), in Dunhuang, Gansu, China, was built to commemorate Tianliu, the white horse of the Buddhist monk Kumārajīva, which carried Buddhist scriptures all the way from Kucha to Dunhuang in China c. 384 CE.
They returned circa 67 CE with the monks Kasyapa Matanga and Dharmaratna, and white horses carrying Buddhist texts and images. The emperor established White Horse Temple in the Han capital Luoyang , where the two supposedly first translated the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters into Chinese.
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 ...
The Temple of the Five Immortals or Five Immortals Temple (Chinese: 五 仙 庙, p Wuxianmiao) [1] is a Taoist temple located in Shiyan's Zhangwan District in China's Hubei Province. The temple is situated on the Heavenly Horse (天 马, Tianma) peak of White Horse Mountain (白 马 山, Báimǎ shān) in the Wudang Mountains.
50 AD: The Hsien Taoism form of Taoism spread through China more often than before and popularized (approximate date). [11] 67 AD: Buddhism comes to China with the two monks Kasyapa and Dharmaraksha. [12] 67 AD: Buddhism is officially established in China with the founding of the White Horse Temple. [1]
The original temple dates back to the Tang dynasty (618–907). It initially called "White Horse Temple" (白马寺) and later became "Yanshou Temple" (延寿寺) and "Zongshan Temple" (宗善寺).
Lingyanshan Temple; Longchang Temple; Niushoushan; Qingliang Temple (Changzhou) Qixia Temple; Tianning Temple (Changzhou) (天宁宝塔) in Changzhou, which contains the tallest pagoda in the world. Height: 153.8 metres (505 ft). Tiger Hill Pagoda; Xingfu Temple (Changshu) Xiyuan Temple; Yunyan Temple (Suzhou)