Golden Pavilion Temple - China Travel

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The Golden Pavilion Temple is located in the north of the southern platform of Mount Wutai and the south of the middle platform. Except for the temple buildings on the top of the five platforms, the Golden Pavilion Temple is located on a high terrain with an altitude of 1900 meters. The Golden Pavilion Temple was first built during the Tang Dynasty, and was presided over by Bukong, a master Sanzang who came to China from India. The temple is made of copper tiles, and the tiles are painted with gold. The whole temple is golden, and because it is the dojo where Master Bukong taught Tantra, it has a high reputation both at home and abroad. There are more than 1,000 statues in each hall of Jinge Temple, which is the temple with the most Buddhist statues in Mount Wutai. The existing temple buildings and statues of Kinkakuji Temple were all restored in the Ming, Qing and later periods, with a total of more than 160 halls. The layout of the temple is divided into two courtyards. In the front yard stands a tall pavilion with double eaves and a gable top. The bronze statue of Avalokitesvara with a height of 17.7 meters (actually 48 arms) is offered inside. This is the tallest Buddha statue in Mount Wutai. The Bronze Buddha was cast in the 34th year of Jiajing Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty (1555). Later, some believers applied thin mud to the Bronze Buddha and pasted it with gold, which became the current Golden Buddha. The bronze Buddha runs through two floors. Next to the bronze statue on the lower floor are two tall statues of attendants, a woman on the right and a man on the left. In the southwest corner of the thousand-handed Avalokitesvara stand altar, there is also a statue of Li Yu, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty who ordered the construction of the temple. There are two one-meter-high stone pillar bricks under the left and right pillars in the hall. They are in the shape of round lotus petals with a waist in the middle and rolling up and down. They are relics of the Tang Dynasty. On the upper floor of the hall, you can see the upper body of the bronze statue of Guanyin, and there are statues of Manjushri and Samantabhadra on both sides. There are dozens of buildings on the east and west sides of the front yard. In the north, there are 19 broken stone cave dwellings on the lower floor and 19 wooden buildings on the upper floor. The cave dwelling on the lower floor is a monk's house, and the stone steps in the cave dwelling in the middle lead to the second-floor hall and the backyard. The nineteen rooms on the upper floor are the Twelve Yuanjue Bodhisattva Hall, the Hall of Five Hundred Arhats, the Hall of Dizang, the Hall of the King of Medicine, the Hall of the Jade Emperor, the Hall of the Three Emperors, and the Hall of Songzi Guanyin. Medicine King is the past Buddha. Yuquan is the God who is called the highest in the sky by Taoism, also known as the Jade Emperor. There are five main halls in the backyard, in which there are three Buddhas: Sakyong Muni Buddha, Medicine Buddha and Amitabha Buddha, with eighteen arhats on both sides.