Yunju Temple

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The Yunju Monastery or the Yunju Temple ( Chinese  雲居寺  /  云居寺 , Pinyin Yúnjū sì , English Yunju Temple / Cloud Dwelling Monastery ) in the large community Dashiwo ( Chinese  大 石窝 Groß ) of the Beijing district of Fangshan , about 75 km southwest from Beijing , is a famous Buddhist monastery , in whose shrine valuable Buddhist relics have been kept, including "Bones of Shakyamuni ". Buddhist sutras from a total of more than 20 million characters are engraved on around 15,000 stone tablets - a work that was started in the 7th century at the end of the Sui and the beginning of the Tang dynasties and up to the time of the Liao / Kitan (907–1125) and Jin / Dschurdschen dynasty (1125–1234) was continued.

For fear of destruction, the monks then buried these stone texts in caves in the earth and in mountain caves, including the famous Donnerklang Cave ( 雷音 洞 , Leiyindong ).

The pagoda and stone tablet sutras of the Yunju Temple in the district of Fangshan ( 房山 云居寺 塔 及 石 经 , Fangshan Yunjusi ta ji shijing , English Yunju Temple Pagoda and Stone Sutras at Fangshan ) have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1961 in Beijing (1-66).

There also inscriptions from the Nestorian (Chinese: Jingjiao ) "Cross Monastery" ( 十字 寺 , Shizisi , English Monastery of the Cross ) from the time of the Mongol rule were discovered (today kept in the Nanjing Museum ).

literature

  • Fangshan Shijing房 山石 经 [Sutras of Fangshan Carved in Stone] (30 vols.) Beijing, Huaxia Chubanshe 2000
  • Fangshan shijing tiji huibian房 山石 經 題 記 彙編 [Catalog of the inscriptions of the sutras from Fangshan engraved in stone]. Beijing, Shumu wenxian chubanshe, 1987
  • Yoshiro Saeki: The Nestorian documents and relics in China. Second revised edition. Tokyo 1951
  • Ian Gillman and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit: Christians in Asia before 1500. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press 1999
  • Zhongguo da baike quanshu : Kaoguxue [Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Volume Archeology]. Beijing, Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe 1986
  • Zhongguo da baike quanshu : Wenwu. Bowoguan [Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Volume of Cultural Assets . Museums]. Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe 1993

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Surveying the Yunjusi Monastery in Fangshan, southwest of Beijing . DFG . Retrieved May 26, 2008.

Coordinates: 39 ° 36 ′ 29 ″  N , 115 ° 46 ′ 4 ″  E