Xiantong Temple Review

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.

显通寺，位于山西省五台山台怀镇北侧，是五台山规模大、历史悠久的寺院，也是五台山五大禅处之一、全山寺院之首，与洛阳的白马寺同为中国最早寺庙之一。该寺始建于东汉永平年间（公元69年），初名大孚灵鹫寺。北魏孝文帝时扩建，唐代重修，并更名“大华严寺”。明初重建，太祖赐额 “大显通寺”。该寺坐北朝南，面积约8万平方米，各种建筑400余间，且大多为明清时期的建筑。中轴线建殿七座，分别为观音殿、文殊殿、大雄宝殿、无量殿、千钵殿、铜殿和藏经阁。铜殿铸于明万历三十八年（公元1610年），共用铜10万斤，是中国国内保存最好的铜殿之一。