Puning Temple

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Mahayana Pavilion ( Dasheng ge ) of the Puning Temple
Large gold lacquer wooden statue of the Guanyin Bodhisattva
Special stamp from 1998 , a joint German issue with China

The Puning Temple or Temple of Universal Peace or the Puning Monastery ( Chinese  普宁寺 , Pinyin Pǔníng sì , English Puning Temple / Temple of Universal Peace ) is one of the Eight Outer Temples in Chengde (Jehol) in the Chinese province of Hebei . The Buddhist monastery is located in the north of the park complex of the Summer Palace on the bank of the Wulie River . Because of the large gold lacquer wooden statue of Guanyin - Bodhisattva in his Mahayana Pavilion ( Dasheng ge ) it is also Big Buddha Temple called.

The temple was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty from 1755 to 1758 and is partly a replica of the Tibetan Samye monastery . It is built in the style of the Han Chinese and Tibetans . The facility covers an area of ​​23,000 square meters. Important buildings are its halls or pavilions Tianwang dian (Hall of the Kings of Heaven ), Daxiong baodian ( Mahavira Hall), Dasheng ge (Mahayana pavilion) and Beiting (plaque pavilion).

The Mahayana Pavilion ( Dasheng ge ) with its three storeys and six eaves is 36.75 m high, the statue of the thousand-armed Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara) inside is 22.23 m high, it is one of the largest wooden sculptures in China. In the memorial pavilion ( Beiting ) there are carved inscriptions in four languages ​​in Manchurian , Chinese , Mongolian and Tibetan script , which remind of the defeat of the Djungars by Qianlong in the Djungarian war in the Ili (Chinese: Yili ) area of Xinjiang in the 1750s.

The Puning Temple ( Puning si ) has been on the List of Monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-115) and on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1961 . It is one of the national focus temples of Buddhism in Han Chinese areas .

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literature

  • Joanna Waley-Cohen: Commemorating War in Eighteenth-Century China. In: Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 30, No. 4 = Special Issue: War in Modern China , 1996, ISSN  0026-749X , pp. 869-899
  • Cihai ("Sea of ​​Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5

Web links

Commons : Temple of Puning  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ From originally eleven.
  2. ↑ 武 烈 河
  3. ↑ 金漆 木雕 大佛 , Jinqi mudiao da Fo
  4. ↑ 大 佛寺 , DaFosi
  5. ↑ The presentation of this article is partly based on that of Cihai , article: Puning si 普宁寺 .
  6. ↑ 天王 殿
  7. ↑ 大雄寶殿
  8. ↑ 碑亭
  9. ↑ 大乘 閣
  10. ↑ 普寧寺 碑  /  普宁寺 碑 , Puning si in "Puning Temple Memorial Plaque ", 平定 准噶爾 勒 銘 伊犁 之 碑  /  平定 准噶尔 勒 铭 伊犁 之 碑 , Pingding Zhunge'er leming Yili zhi in "Memorial plaque to the pacification of the Djungars in Ili "and 平定 准噶爾 后 勒 銘 伊犁 之 碑  /  平定 准噶尔 后 勒 铭 伊犁 之 碑 , Pingding Zhunga'er hou leming Yili zhi in " Later plaque on the pacification of the Djungars in Ili "; see. Waley-Cohen, p. 880.

Coordinates: 41 ° 0 ′ 52 ″  N , 117 ° 56 ′ 46 ″  E