Xiantong Temple

Xiantong Temple is the largest and oldest temple in Wutai Mountain, one of the five major Zen sites in Wutai Mountain, and one of the ten monasteries listed as a cultural landscape in the World Heritage List. It was built in the Yongping years of the Ming emperor in the East Han Dynasty (58-75), and most of the existing buildings are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Xiantong Temple is the largest and oldest temple in Wutai Mountain, one of the five major Zen sites in Wutai Mountain, and one of the ten monasteries listed as a cultural landscape in the World Heritage List. It was built in the Yongping period of the Ming Dynasty (58-75), and most of the existing buildings are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was built in the Yongping period of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (58-75), and most of the existing buildings are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Xiantong Temple, located on the north side of Taihuai Town, Wutai Mountain, built the earliest historical and largest temple in Wutai Mountain, the Buddha country. Time went back to the Yongping years of the East Han Dynasty (69 AD). After the completion of the first ancient temple in China, the two Tianzhu monks came to Wutai Mountain from Luoyang and built the first monastery of Wutai Mountain - Daqi Lingqi Temple (the name of Xiantong Temple), which is known as "the second ancient temple in China". The historical process of Wutai Mountain becoming a Buddhist holy place has been opened. Today, Xiantong Temple covers an area of more than 80,000 square meters, and more than 400 buildings, mostly the remains of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, become the largest mountain monastery. The three ancient buildings in Xiantong Temple are famous, the big Buddha hall with all wooden structure, the infinite hall with pure brick structure, and the bronze hall with all copper casting; the most exciting and eye-catching is the bronze hall. The imitation wooden square bronze hall cast in the Ming Wanli period (1609 AD) has two layers of heavy, high 8.3 meters, long 4.7 meters, wide 4.5 meters; the inside is a room, four walls are full of small Buddhas, and the central platform sits on the high 1 meter bronze Buddha; The bronze hall is made of 50 tons of copper, the exterior gold foil, the distant view, the glittering gold, the sparkling.

Wutaishan Xiantong Temple, one of the five Zen places in Wutai Mountain.

Xiantong Temple, located on the north side of Taihuai Town, Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province, is a large-scale and historic monastery of Wutai Mountain, and is also one of the five major Zen places in Wutai Mountain, the first of the whole mountain monastery, and the Baima Temple in Luoyang is one of the earliest temples in China. The temple was built in the Yongping years of the East Han Dynasty (69 AD), and was first named Daqi Lingqi Temple. It was expanded during the Northern Wei Dynasty and rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty, and was renamed "Dahuayan Temple". Rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty, Taizu gave the "Daxiantong Temple". The temple sits in the north and south, covering an area of about 80,000 square meters, with more than 400 buildings of various types, most of which were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The seven temples are built on the central axis, namely Guanyin Palace, Wenshu Temple, Daxiong Palace, Wuliang Palace, Millennium Palace, Tong Palace and Tibetan Jing Pavilion. The bronze hall was cast in the Ming Wanli 38 years (1610 AD), sharing 100,000 pounds of copper, and is one of the best preserved bronze halls in China.