Foguang Temple

Deep mountain Tibetan ancient temple. There are three half-Tang structures in existence, and Wutai Mountain occupies two. The East Hall of Foguang Temple was built in the late Tang Dynasty and is the largest Tang structure in existence. Liang Sicheng evaluates it as "dougong majestic, far-reaching." Although Nanchan Temple is a rural temple, the scale is not as good as Buddha light, but the age is earlier, it is the earliest wooden structure building in China's construction year. The statues in the two great halls are original objects of the Tang Dynasty.

Foguang Temple is located on a hillside surrounded by small mountains on three sides of the east, south and north, and open to the west. The main axis of the temple is east-west, and it is treated into three platforms according to the terrain. There are more than 120 temples, halls, buildings and pavilions in the temple. Seven of its Middle East halls are Tang Dynasty buildings. Seven of Wenshu Temple, for the Jin Dynasty buildings, the rest are Ming and Qing period buildings.

Located 55 kilometers east of Taihuai Town, the Foguang Mountain is founded in the Northern Wei Dynasty Xiaowen Emperor period (471 ４９９). The Tang and Tang reached a great height, famous at home and abroad, and known as "Asian Buddha Light". Tang Wuzong died and the monastery was destroyed. Tang Xuanzong Dazhong 11 years (857) rebuilt the Daxiong Pavilion. Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing generations have been repaired. The temple of Buddha Guang is grand and the layout is comfortable. The whole temple is composed of three courtyards. In addition to Tang Jian Daxiong Palace, there are Wenshu Palace, Temple of Heavenly Kings, Temple of Kalan Palace, Wanshan Hall, Xiangfeng Huayu Building, Ancestor Pagoda, Shijing Building, etc., all masterpieces in ancient Chinese architecture. The Buddha stage in the Daxiong Palace is full of 35 statues of the Tang Dynasty. The center is the Sakya, Maitreya, Mitada Buddha and Wenshu, Puxian Bodhisattva, standing on both sides of the guarding King Kong. The back of the central Buddha seat and other places have Buddhist-themed murals in the Tang Dynasty, the only early murals in China's existing wooden buildings. Although the temple was built 75 years later than the temple of Nanchan Temple, the value of architectural art is higher than the latter.

According to historical records, during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (471-499), he passed by Foguang Mountain and saw a group of Buddha light, so he ordered Dingxin Temple, called "Buguang Temple". When Tang Wuzong (841-846) died of Buddha, the Buddha Temple was damaged. The existing East Hall, for the 11th year of Tang Xuanzong Dazhong (857) reconstruction, the statues, murals, stone carvings, the tomb towers outside the hall, are all relics of the Tang Dynasty.

Sitting on the stone steps of the Big Buddha Guang Temple built in the middle of Tang Dynasty, there is a feeling of silence, and the hall of thousands of years ago, as if time and space are floating in a vague sense of when and where?