Xilai Temple

Key cultural relics protection units at the provincial level. It is located in the east of Qinghai Province, more than 50 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xining. Xilai temple, built in 1606, is located in Dongguan Street, Ledu County. It is said that the construction of the temple is in difficulty, and it is about to give up halfway. The construction owners want to give more local alms. When I got up in the morning, I found two camels in the hospital, with heavy bags on their backs, lying facing east. People think it's a walking hump, and the camel owner will drive it away. In the middle of the day, no camel owner was found, so they sent people to look for him everywhere. As night fell, they did not drive him away. So someone opened the bag and found that it was full of silver, about 9000 taels. After getting the silver, we speeded up the progress and built more halls. When the temple was named after its completion, people thought that it would be difficult to complete the temple without the capital from the West. Today, the completion of the temple is actually funded by the West. So it was named "Xilai Temple". Another legend says that someone found a bronze Buddha by the river and built a temple for it, especially called "Xilai Temple". Xilai temple covers an area of 2184 square meters. The temple is large-scale, simple and elegant. It is a typical Chinese Buddhist temple among the well preserved ancient temples in Qinghai. The main building in the temple is built on the central axis facing south, which is composed of the mountain gate, the central hall, the main hall and the East-West two chamber hall. The courtyard is shaded by green trees, with the red eaves and stone green arches in the corridor of the Buddha Hall. The gate is 3 wide and 1 deep. The middle is the porch, and the East and West are the four clay statues. Entering the gate is the front yard, facing the gate is the middle hall, and the East and west sides are the hall. The hall and hall are hard mountain buildings, and the middle hall is mainly for Amitabha. The main hall is 5 rooms wide and 3 frames deep. It stands on the platform with a single eaves on the top of the mountain. In the hall, there are three Buddhas, Sakyamuni in the middle, Manjusri and Maitreya on both sides, Ananda, Kaya, disciple and bhikkhu. There are four Bodhisattvas on the East and West gables. The whole wall surface is embossed with landscapes, figures, buildings, trees, rare birds, exotic animals, etc. The temple is well preserved. Xilai temple is now the Ledu County Museum of history and cultural relics, displaying the precious cultural relics collected and unearthed in Ledu area, as well as 24 scroll Buddha paintings of Ming Dynasty left by the original temple.

Xilai Temple

Foguangshanlai temple is a Mahayana Buddhist temple in Los Angeles, California, USA. its name comes from the saying "Buddhism comes from the west". It is the American branch of FoGuangShan temple in Taiwan. The temple was planned to be built in 1978 and started construction in 1986. The appearance of the temple adopts traditional Chinese Buddhist architecture. The foundation stone laying ceremony was held on July 3, 1986. The Buddha statue was officially opened on July 24, 1988. On November 26, the same year, the completion ceremony was held to teach the three great precepts and Wanyuan water and land law society. The main buildings are Daxiong hall, wusheng hall, Zen hall, Wuguan hall, foguangyuan Art Museum, Huaien hall, assembly hall, Dharma hall, Xiangyun hall, Haihui hall, guest hall, dishuifang, Foguang bookstore, Foguang Xilai school, etc.

Xilai temple is located on a high slope of hasandagang, Los Angeles, California. The temple is the most spectacular Buddhist temple in the United States.

The temple is the largest temple built in the United States, and its name means "Buddha comes to the west". It covers an area of 15 acres and has a construction area of about 100000 square feet. It was approved for construction in 1985 and was inaugurated on November 26, 1988. The name of Xilai Temple registered by the U.S. government is the international Buddhists progress society, which can be called Hsi Lai Temple. It costs 20 million US dollars and is donated by believers from all over the world, which shows the influence of Xilai temple among American Buddhists.

Address: xilaisi lane, Minzhu West Street, Ganzhou District, Zhangye City, Gansu Province

Longitude: 100.450867

Latitude: 38.929936

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: 8:00-18:00

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