Sakyamuni pagoda

Located in the east of Guanghua temple, Chengxiang District, Putian City, Fujian Province, Sakyamuni pagoda was built in the first year of Qiandao in Southern Song Dynasty. Tower about 30 meters high, five octagonal, stone structure. Imitation wooden pavilion style building, exquisite shape, simple and solemn. The waist of xumizuo is embossed with Guanyin Bodhisattva. The eaves of each tower are thin and long, light and beautiful. Under the eaves, there are two layers of patterns, such as relief Phoenix, double headed feather man, flying fairy and exotic flowers. The octagonal hollow room in the tower is spacious and bright.

Sakyamuni pagoda

Sakyamuni pagoda, located in the east of Guanghua temple, Chengxiang District, Putian City, Fujian Province, was built in the first year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty (1165 AD). Tower about 30 meters high, five octagonal, stone structure.

Sakyamuni pagoda is a wooden pavilion style building with exquisite appearance, simple and solemn. The waist of xumizuo is embossed with Guanyin Bodhisattva. The eaves of each tower are thin and long, light and beautiful. Under the eaves, there are two layers of patterns, such as relief Phoenix, double headed feather man, flying fairy and exotic flowers. The octagonal hollow room in the tower is spacious and bright.

Introduction to pagoda

Sakyamuni pagoda is located in the east of Guanghua temple, Chengxiang District, Putian City, Fujian Province. Built in the first year of Qiandao (1165) of Song Dynasty, it is a stone building of imitation wooden pavilion type, with octagonal five story hollow, 11.6 meters long and 30.6 meters high, covering an area of 256 square meters. The first floor is open from east to west, and the rest is set with niches.

From the second floor to the fifth floor, doors are opened on all sides and niches are set up. The eaves of each tower are thin and long, light and beautiful. The pagoda body is rich in carvings. On both sides of xumizuo and the threshold, there are relief carvings of dwarf, arhat, Vajra warrior, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Feixian, Phoenix, lion, peony, lotus and other flowers and plants. The carvings are exquisite and vivid.

Some of the statues in the niches of the veranda are missing, some of the statues in the niches above the second floor are incomplete, some of the relief statues in the bottom floor are artificially damaged, there are cracks in the feather corners above the second floor, and some of the granite surface is peeling off. In 1988, Sakyamuni pagoda was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Cultural relics protection

After more than 800 years, the tower has withstood the test of the earthquake of magnitude 8 or above in Putian. It is a precious material for the study of ancient architecture, stone carving art and Song Dynasty culture. It was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit in January 1988.

Pumen Temple beside the tower is the former site of "Dongfeng Shutang" built by Huang Tao, the imperial censor of the Tang Dynasty. The nearby "Mr. Zheng San's ancestral hall" belongs to the three brothers of Zheng Lu, a famous Confucian who built the temple in the memorial hall. In the ancestral hall, the inscription "Nanshan Yueyin" is inscribed on the stone forehead, which is the handwriting of national hero Wen Tianxiang.

Sakyamuni pagoda is a wooden pavilion like building built by diabase, about 35 meters high. Sakyamuni pagoda is a five story octagonal hollow structure. There are stone steps embedded in the inner wall of the tower, which can reach the top of the tower. There are various relief sculptures on the outer wall of the tower with exquisite carving, and the eaves of the tower are decorated with imitation wood structure. There are 46 inscriptions of song, yuan and Ming Dynasties inside and outside the tower.

Layout structure

Tasumi seat is about 80 cm high. The waist part is carved with the pattern of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the corner and pillar parts are embossed with heavy-duty gnomes.

The diameter of the first layer of the tower is 10.50 meters, and the doors are open from east to west. The other six sides have niches. On both sides of the niches are reliefs of Bodhisattva, arhat, Kaya and Ananda. From the second floor to the fifth floor, there are rectangular doors in the East, West, North and south, and there are Vajra warriors carved beside the doors. There are niches on the other four sides, next to which there are reliefs of Guanyin Bodhisattva. On the second floor, there is a plaque of Sakyamuni pagoda. The fifth floor is 7.64m in diameter.

Each layer of the tower is 1 meter out of the eaves, which is carved with imitation bricks and tiles. Under the eaves of each tower, two layers of huge stones are laid out, and thin stones are used to pick them out. The eaves of the pagoda are thin and long, and the relief sculptures of stacked astringent boulders include Phoenix, double headed feathered man, flying fairy, flowers and plants, etc.

architectural style

Ancient Chinese Buddhist architecture. It is commonly known as Guanghua Temple Pagoda. It is located in the east of Guanghua temple in the southern suburb of Putian City, Fujian Province. According to the inscriptions of visitors climbing the pagoda beside the gate, it was built before the first year of Qiandao in Song Dynasty (1165). The shape is simple and the carving is exquisite.

In 1988, the State Council of the people's Republic of China announced it as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

The tower is made of diabase, five story octagonal, imitating the wooden pavilion. Its height is 28.20 meters. Xumizuo is a waist girdle on eight sides, 80 cm high, with lion balls and flowers on the waist and dwarf on the corner. In the south of the tower, there are five stone steps in the middle, with a pair of watchposts and sea cirrus fence on both sides. The palisade of the cloister is embossed with cloud and water patterns. The diameter of the first tower is 10.50m, and that of the fifth tower is 7.64m.

Relief art

On the first floor, doors are opened on the East and west sides, and other niches are set up with Arhats on both sides. On the second to fifth floors, doors are opened on all sides, and niches are set on all sides. Next to the doors are carved Vajra warriors, and next to the niches are carved Guanyin Bodhisattva. Each floor is 1m above the eaves. The columns are of gualeng shape, and the top of the column is of Dougong shape.

Under the eaves, there are two layers of patterns, such as relief Phoenix, double headed feather man, flying fairy and flowers. The octagonal hollow room in the tower is spacious and bright. The inner top of the fifth layer is composed of four groups of octagonal caissons. Step by step, you can climb the top of the tower.

In 1983, the state allocated funds to repair the tower, install the tower brake and lightning rod, dredge the drainage ditch and add the sand pool. In 1988, Tacheng was surrounded by iron fence.

historical origin

From October to November 1937, the first column of the seventh Route Army of the Anti Japanese volunteers led by the central Fujian Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was stationed in Guanghua temple. The Anti Japanese slogans in tanaimoshu still show the era of the revolutionary war.

Address: No.486, Dongda Road, Licheng District, Putian City

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