Qingliang Temple - China Travel

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Qingliang Temple is located in Qingliang Valley, northeast of Shangwachang Village, southwest of Taihuai Town. The temple is named after the famous Manjusri holy site "Qingliang Stone". The temple sits east and faces west, and is arranged according to the traditional Chinese central axis symmetry. There are five floors of main halls on the central axis. The meditation hall and side halls are left and right symmetrical.

According to "Qingliang Mountain Records", the temple started from the second year of Emperor Xiaowen Yanxing to the seventeenth year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (472-493). In the Tang Dynasty, it was the Zhenguo Daochang for the country.

In the first year of Dali in the Tang Dynasty (766), it was the Bukong Sanzang Tantric Dojo. It is a pity that during the Cultural Revolution, the entire temple was destroyed, but the Qingliang Stone remained.

Qingliang Stone is the symbol of Qingliang Temple. According to Buddhist legend, Manjusri Bodhisattva once preached scriptures on Qingliang Stone, so it is also called "Manshu Bed". Today's Qingliang Temple was funded by Ms. Huang Huiqing from Hong Kong in the late 1990s, and designed and constructed by Hu Yinyu, a master of arts and crafts from Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau. A new temple was rebuilt.