Pagoda Temple

Tayuan Temple is one of the five major Zen sites in Wutai Mountain, and is also one of the ten monasteries listed as a cultural landscape in the World Heritage List. The temple of the temple is north-south, consisting of a horizontal temple and a Buddhist temple. The buildings on the central axis include shadow walls, archway, stone steps, gates, mountain gates, bell and drum towers, heavenly palaces, Daci Yanshou Temple, Pagoda Temple Tibetan Jingge. The main buildings in the temple, the Daxiong Palace in the front, the Tibetan Jingge in the back, and the Sheli Tower in the middle.

Tayuan Temple is one of the five major Zen places in Wutai Mountain, and is also one of the ten monasteries listed as a cultural landscape in the World Heritage List. To enter the temple, you need to buy another 10 yuan ticket. The temple of the Pagoda Temple is named after the big white tower of Wutai Mountain. The full name of the big white tower is Sakya Wen Buddha's true body Sheli Pagoda, also known as the big Ciyanshou Pagoda. When the big white tower was built, it is difficult to verify.

Where is the iconic landscape of Mount Wutai? The Great White Pagoda of Tayuan Temple is worthy of Top 1. The Great White Pagoda, full name is the true Sheli Pagoda of Sakya Wen Buddha. It is rumored that the Sheli Pagoda built by the Indian Ashoka King, has become the first holy place to worship Buddha in Mount Wutai. The Great White Pagoda was built in the Yuan-Dade period (1302) and was originally the pagoda courtyard on the south side of Xiantong Temple. In the Ming Yongle period (1407), the pagoda was rebuilt and the temple was called "Tayuan Temple", which became one of the five Zen places in Wutai Mountain. The white tower is56.4 meters tall (more than 20 meters higher than the white tower in Beihai Park in Beijing), towering into the sky, the tower is white, and the red wall gold tiles are intersected, and the spectacular, becoming the iconic landscape of Wutai Mountain. Wutai Mountain has many pagodas, only the white tower is famous, and other pagodas are surrounded by stars. Whether in the high Dailuoding, Bodhisattva top, or in the low Taihuai Town, its unique figure is extremely eye-catching and unforgettable.

Wutaishan Tower Yard Temple, Wutai Mountain sign big white tower!

In the Wutai Mountain Scenic Area, there are hundreds of temples, large and small, and there is a tower between the temples that is particularly conspicuous and spectacular. This is the big white tower, which is known locally as the symbol of Wutai Mountain. The full name of the big white tower is the true body of the Buddha of Sakya Wen. The monastery in which the Great White Pagoda is located is called the monastery of the temple. The monastery is called the monastery of the tower. It is quite decent. The temple is facing north and south, and it is composed of the temple courtyard and the Buddhist temple. The buildings on the central axis include shadow walls, archway, stone steps, gates, mountain gates, bell and drum towers, Temple of Heavenly Kings, Daci Yanshou Temple, Pagoda Temple Tibetan Jingge, and Shanhai Building, Wenshu Temple Tower and other buildings, majestic. The Great White Tower is located between the halls and the temples. It is majestic and upright, pointed directly to the blue sky, with a gas-covered mountain and river, and a panoramic view of the five stations. The ancients called this tower, "the sky is high into the clouds; the lights and night candles are the first place to cool down." When the Great White Tower was built, it is difficult to examine. According to the "Qingliang Mountain Zhi", this tower was there before the Emperor of Han Ming Dynasty. The tower is square, around 83 ． 3: meters, through height 75 ． 3 meters. The pagoda is white, the tower body is like a algae bottle, from the bottom to the top, from the thick and thin, from the thick and thin, the thick and thin, the square match, beautiful shape. Above the tower, cover copper plate eight, forming a circle, according to dry, kan, squawk, earthquake, squawk, separation, squawk, and gossip position, the disk is wind-grinded copper bottle. The circumference of the disk is more than 23 meters, and the copper top is more than 5 meters high. From the copper top to the edge of the copper plate, it is fixed by the copper chain. It looks like a straw hat in the north and a bucket sign in the south. The edge of the disk is also hung with 36 copper covets, each more than 2 meters long and nearly 1 meter wide. Each coveted lower end, and hangs 3 wind bells, together with tower waist wind bells, a total of 252. Every time the wind and the sun, the clouds move over the tower, birds fly around, the wind bell rings, leisurely into a rhyme, do not have a elegant taste. The Great Ciyanshou Temple at the southern end of the Great White Tower, which houses Sakyamuni Buddha, Wenshu Bodhisattva, Puxian Bodhisattva and 18 Luohan. Such a temple, in other temples called the Daxiong Temple, and the special book "Da Ci Yanshou Temple" hanging here is to be consistent with the Da Ci Yanshou Pagoda, the Dabai Pagoda, to become one. The White Tower is a great achievement in the history of Chinese tower construction and is a rare treasure or an isolated example in Chinese tower architecture.