Guangsheng Monastery
The Guangsheng Temple ( Chinese 广胜寺 , Pinyin Guǎngshèng sì ) is a Buddhist monastery in the county Hongdong in the Chinese province of Shanxi at the foot of Huoshan . It has an upper and a lower temple. It was founded under a different name during the Eastern Han Dynasty in the 1st year of the Jianhe era (147). It got its current name during the Tang Dynasty . Today's older buildings date from the Yuan and Ming Dynasties . It has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-96) since 1961 . A famous edition of the Buddhist canon , the Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka ( Zhaocheng Jinzang ) from the time of the Jin Dynasty ( Jurchen ), was rediscovered here in 1933. The Upper Temple has a 47 m high pagoda from the time of the Ming Dynasty, the Feihong Pagoda (Feihong ta 飞虹 塔), the symbol of the monastery.
literature
- Anning Jing: The Water God's Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery: Cosmic Function of Art, Ritual, and Theater . 2001 (Sinica Leidensia) ISBN 9789004119253
- Liu Yurui 刘郁瑞: Guangsheng si yu "Zhaocheng Jin zang" 广胜寺 与 赵 城 金 藏 (Guangsheng Monastery and Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka), Taiyuan: Shanxi renmin chubanshe, 2001
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Coordinates: 36 ° 18 ′ 6 ″ N , 111 ° 48 ′ 23 ″ E