The Temple consists of two sections, the temple yard and the two-entrance pagoda yard built up in the Ming Dynasty with a three-partition gateway under a single-eaves gabled roof, which has been preserved as the earliest wooden structure therein since the reign of Emperor Hongzhi(1488-1505) as per the Records of Reconstruction Works of Dharma King Temple written in Jiaging 10, the Ming Dynasty (1531)
The Temple consists of two sections, the temple yard and the two-entrance pagoda yard built up in the Ming Dynasty with a three-partition gateway under a single-eaves gabled roof, which has been preserved as the earliest wooden structure therein since the reign of Emperor Hongzhi (1488-1505) as per the Records of Reconstruction Works of Dharma King Temple written in Jiaging 10, the Ming Dynasty (1531)
On the sloping hill north of the temple yard is located the pagoda yard wherein is erected a 15-storey intense-eaves square pagoda matched with three small single storey grave towers. The pagoda stands 40m-plus high with a flat outer wall and the flying eaves laid with bricks layer upon layer, a short tower raised on the top. It was fabricated upright and elegant, with an arch gate in the lower body and arch window frames between the eaves on different stories, a high-grade of the kind
On the sloping hill north of the temple yard is located the pagoda yard wherein is erected a 15-storey intense-eaves square pagoda matched with three small singlestorey grave towers. The pagoda stands 40m-plus high with a flat outer wall and the flying eaves laid with bricks layer upon layer, a short tower raised on the top. It was fabricated upright and elegant, with an arch gate in the lower body and arch window frames between the eaves on different stories, a high-grade of the kind
Mount Maiji Grottoes, enrolled in the four most prominent grottos in China, lies in the southeast of Tianshui city in Gansu province The Mount protrudes upstanding as an isolated peak in the western Chin Range looking like an immense wheat haystack
Mount Maiji Grottoes, enrolled in the four most prominent grottos in China, lies in the southeast of Tianshui city in Gansu province. The Mount protrudes upstanding as an isolated peak in the western Chin Range, looking like an immense wheat haystack
The Grottoes was excavated roughly in the Later Chin Dynasty (384-417)and gradually improved into a grandiose-scale complex of stone grottos with Buddhist statuettes installed within cubicles on the precipices tier upon tier and the wooden-plank road zigzagging its way round the cliff
The Grottoes was excavated roughly in the Later Chin Dynasty (384-417) and gradually improved into a grandiose-scale complex of stone grottos with Buddhist statuettes installed within cubicles on the precipices tier upon tier and the wooden-plank road zigzagging its way round the cliff
Approximately in Kaiyuan 22, the Tang Dynasty(734 A D) there happened a stalwart earthquake in Tianshui which caused the collapse of the middle part of the precipices and rendered solely left the eastern and western grottoes. Currently the eastern grottoes contain fifty four cubicles and the western one hundred forty cubicles preserving a treasure of over 7, 000 clay sculptures or stone engravings and 1, 000 m2 frescoes spread from the end of the fourth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century
Approximately in Kaiyuan 22, the Tang Dynasty (734 A.D) there happened a stalwart earthquake in Tianshui which caused the collapse of the middle part of the precipices and rendered solely left the eastern and western grottoes. Currently the eastern grottoes contain fifty four cubicles and the western one hundred forty cubicles, preserving a treasure of over 7, 000 clay sculptures or stone engravings and 1, 000 m² frescoes spread from the end of the fourth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century;