Xiantong Temple Bronze Hall in Mount Wutai
Regarded as the first temple founded on Mount Wutai, Xiantong Temple has a Ming gilt-bronze hall cast from about fifty tonnes of copper and a beamless brick-vaulted hall.
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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · County-level
Wu Tai County
The Great White Pagoda rises at sacred Mount Wutaishan in Wutai, home to celebrated Tang-dynasty timber temple halls at Foguang and Nanchan Temples.
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A place shaped through time
The Great White Pagoda rises at sacred Mount Wutaishan in Wutai, home to celebrated Tang-dynasty timber temple halls at Foguang and Nanchan Temples.
Wu Tai County
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Tayuan Temple Great White Pagoda in Mount Wutai
The fifty-metre Nepalese-style Great White Pagoda, emblem of Mount Wutai, is said to enshrine relics of Shakyamuni and a lock of Manjushri's hair.
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Pusading Imperial Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Wutai
Kangxi and Qianlong lodged at this temple on pilgrimages to Wutai, which has yellow glazed tiles, a nine-dragon stone carving and leads the mountain's Tibetan Buddhist temples.
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Shuxiang Temple Giant Manjushri Hall in Wutai
A nearly ten-metre Ming statue of Manjushri riding a green lion dominates the hall, surrounded by vivid hanging sculptures of five hundred arhats crossing the sea.
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