Temple of True Silence

The "Temple of True Silence" in the Liao Dynasty is the Lindong Houzhao Temple Grotto Temple. It is located in Chagan Hadasumu, Balin Zuo Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in a valley 15 kilometers north of the Liaoshangjing site and 300 kilometers away from Chifeng.

 

Here is a Buddhist resort, there are 110 existing relief Buddha statues. The grottoes are excavated on the steep wall on the southeast side of Taoshi Mountain, and are divided into three caves: the middle, the south and the north. In front of the cave is the "Shanfu Temple", a Lama Temple continued in the Qing Dynasty. The four big characters "Temple of Zhenji" are engraved on the eyebrows and foreheads of the middle grottoes, which are the inscriptions of the grottoes excavated in the Liao Dynasty. The word "true silence" coincides with the meaning of "passed away" of Sakyamuni in the Zhongzhong Grotto. There are several statues of Buddha's disciples around the reclining Buddha statue of Sakyamuni in the cave, making a gesture of compassion. There are more than a hundred statues of thousands of Buddhas on the wall of the grotto, with different images. In the middle of the statues in the south grotto is the Buddha, and two Bodhisattvas, Manjushri and Samantabhadra riding a lion and an elephant, are lined up on both sides, and there are donors serving them. The North Cave is divided into inner and outer chambers. The statues in the outer chamber are the same as those in the South Cave. The statues in the inner chamber are all relief sculptures.

 

There are two vajra reliefs standing on the stone walls on both sides of the entrance of Taoshi Valley, which are very vivid. One east and one west, each holding a vajra, stepping on the two ghosts, and there are many Sanskrit inscriptions in Qing Dynasty on the rock walls and boulders. :"Mantra". There are also several grottoes in the valley near the "Temple of True Silence", among which are the ruins of Hongfu Temple and Kaihua Temple recorded in Liao history. The brick and wood structure Lama Temple in front of the grotto.