Ashoka temple
The Ashoka Temple or Aśoka Temple ( Chinese 阿育王 寺 , Pinyin Āyùwáng sì , English King Ashoka Temple ; Japanese Aikuō-ji ) at the southern foot of Pushan Mountain in Baochuang, Yinzhou District , Ningbo City , Zhejiang Province , China , is a Buddhist temple .
The temple is named after King Ashoka , the third ruler of the Indian Maurya dynasty . Its origin is said to go back to the time of the Western Jin Dynasty (282). An ancient stupa is said to have been discovered there and it has been claimed that it was one of the 84,000 Ashoka built.
In 405, the first year of the Yixi era under Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty , a temple stupa and other buildings were built there.
Important buildings are the relic hall (Sheli dian 舍利 殿) with the relic of Buddha Shakyamuni and its main hall (Daxiong Baodian 大雄宝殿). The temple is also an important site for Japanese Zen Buddhism.
It is number five in the group of the five most important Chinese Chan Buddhism temples.
Since 2006 he has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China in Zhejiang (6-545).
Web links
- A Pictorial Biography of the Venerable Master Hsu Yun: Bowing to the relics at King Ashoka Temple (engl.)
- Miniature Carved wooden Sarira Pagoda at Asoka Temple, Ningbo of Zhejiang Province (Engl.)
- Pagoda at Asoka Temple, Ningbo of Zhejiang Province (Engl.)
Footnotes
- ↑ http://drbachinese.org/online_reading/sf_others/VM_HsuYun_Bio_01/page33.htm
- ↑ Zhonghua wushan 中华 五 山 or Zhongguo chanzong wushan 中国 禅宗 五 山 or Tianxia chanzong wushan 天下 禅宗 五 山
Coordinates: 29 ° 51 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 121 ° 44 ′ 39 ″ E