Xuanzhong Temple in Shanxi: An exploration of the soul's dwelling place

Xuanzhong Temple is located on the Shibi Mountain, ten kilometers northwest of Jiaocheng County, Shanxi Province. It was founded in the second year of Yanxing in the Northern Wei Dynasty (472 AD) and completed in the first year of Chengming (476 AD). Because the terrain here is rugged and the mountains are like walls, it was renamed 'Shibi Temple'. In 1983, Xuanzhong Temple was listed as a national key Buddhist temple in the Han area by the State Council. In 2012, it was rated as a AAAA tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration. On the central axis of Xuanzhong Temple, there are halls such as the Hall of Heavenly Kings, the Great Treasure Hall, the Seven Buddhas Hall, and the Thousand Buddhas Hall, which are distributed from south to north. They are arranged from low to high, blending with the mountain. The mountain gate is a single-eave gate, and in the center are the four simple and robust characters of 'Yongning Zen Temple'. Chengdu-Jiangyou-Wu's Back Mountain in Chengdu: It takes more than three hours to get there from Chengdu (there is a checkpoint at the foot of the mountain that checks the displacement of cars below 2.0). We drove the car to the end of the asphalt road where it was difficult to walk. The parking fee at the local farmhouse is 20 yuan. If it doesn't rain, off-road vehicles can drive up.