Donglin Academy
The Donglin Academy was an influential Chinese philosophical school that was founded during the Song Dynasty and flourished during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties . The Donglin Academy building complex near the east gate of the east Chinese city of Wuxi ( Jiangsu Province ) was declared a monument of the People's Republic of China by the State Council in 2006 .
The foundation of the Donglin Academy in 1111 goes back to the scholar Yang Shi , who came from Jiangle in south- east China . After it had been temporarily converted into a monastery during the Yuan Dynasty, it was re-established in the same place in 1604 (Ming Dynasty) by a group led by the scholars Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong . It became the center of rationalist Confucianism , which at the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing dynasties had a major influence on the philosophical life of China and shaped its development in the long term. When the chief eunuch Wei Zhongxian seized power under Emperor Tianqi , the members of the Donglin Academy were subjected to reprisals and the structure of the building was also badly damaged. Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to restore the academy and the Donglin academy has not been changed since this work, ordered by the emperor.
The most important buildings of the academy include the Pavilion of the Stone Tablets, the Lize Hall, the Siyong Hall, the Yanju Temple, the Donglin Vihara , the Sangong Ancestral Temple, the Baogong Ancestral Temple, the East-West Corridor, the Daonan ancestral temple, the Yang pond, the old stone archway and the flagstone. They have largely retained the style of an academy from the Ming and Qing dynasties, so they are very valuable from a philosophical, historical and architectural point of view.
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- ↑ a b c 国家 文物 局 (Ed.): 全国 重点 文物保护 单位 (第六批) . 1st edition. tape 5 . 文物 出版社, Beijing 2008, ISBN 978-7-5010-2446-9 , pp. 70-72 (Chinese).
Coordinates: 31 ° 34 ′ 44 ″ N , 120 ° 18 ′ 13 ″ E