Hanging Temple Sanjiao Hall
At the temple's highest hall, Shakyamuni, Laozi and Confucius sit side by side, expressing a fifteen-hundred-year-old harmony of the three teachings.
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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · County-level
Hun Yuan County
Perched 50 meters above canyon floor on sheer cliffs, the 1,500-year-old Hanging Temple clings in Hunyuan beneath North Sacred Mountain Hengshan.
Regional story
A place shaped through time
Perched 50 meters above canyon floor on sheer cliffs, the 1,500-year-old Hanging Temple clings in Hunyuan beneath North Sacred Mountain Hengshan.
Hun Yuan County
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Atlas Attractions
Hanging Temple Cantilevered Timber Beams & Cliffs
Founded in 491 under the Northern Wei, the temple clings fifty metres up a cliff of Jinlong Gorge, resting on beams inserted into the rock and natural ledges.
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Mount Heng Summit Tianfengling & Hengzong Palace
Beneath sheer cliffs of Mount Heng's 2,016-metre main peak stands the imperial temple to the God of the Northern Peak, reached by 103 steep Ming stone steps.
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Jinlong Gorge Inscriptions & Li Bai's Zhuanguan
Legend says Li Bai, visiting in the Kaiyuan era, wrote the giant characters zhuangguan, meaning magnificent, on the cliff and added an extra dot to express his awe.
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