Luoyang, Henan Province, is the main birthplace of Chinese civilization. This ancient city, with a history of more than 1500 years, is the longest-established city in China and the most dynasties. Located 12 kilometers east of the old city of luoyang, the white horse temple, founded in the eastern han yongping eleven years (a.d.68), is the first temple built by the government after the introduction of buddhism in china, known as the "ancestral court" of chinese buddhism. The story of the West is familiar to everyone, and the construction of the White Horse Temple is also derived from this. In the Eastern Han Dynasty anhui flights Yongping eight years (65 years), the Emperor of the Han and Ming dynasties sent Cai Yin, Qin Jing out of the Western region, worship and seek the Dharma. Two years later, the two will use a white horse to return the book. In AD 68, Emperor Hanming aimed to build a monastery on the outskirts of Luoyang, to commemorate the "white horse camel sutra ", named White Horse Temple, and since then" Temple "has become the unified name of the Chinese monastery. Most of the existing monasteries remained in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the terraces and wells of the Han Dynasty are still vaguely visible. White horse temple, the highest cool platform, according to legend is hanming emperor liu zhuang young summer, reading, later two indian monks live here and translated and preaching, china's first chinese scriptures, chapter 42 is translated here. The existing platform is the bangkok to guangzhou flights remains of the Han and Tang dynasties, known as the "White Horse Temple six scenery" the first. In the stone road leading to the "reception hall ", placed a huge iron Xiantao, according to legend can bring peace and auspicious, visitors through here for the lucky, always love to touch, thousands of years Xiantao has been touched the whole body black bright. In fact, this Xiantao is the Eastern Han Dynasty Qingshi pagoda spire, the tower collapsed for a long time, then the monks put the spire on the original site of the pagoda. The site of the White Horse Temple has not been moved for more than 1900 years, the architectural layout is regular, the style is simple. It is worth mentioning that the general temple behind the Temple of Heaven is the Great Hall of Treasure, and the White Horse Temple between the two Temple also has a large Buddha Hall. Buddha Sakyamuni, Manjushri Bodhisattva (hand-held scroll), Puxian Bodhisattva (hand-held Ruyi) three Buddha statues, for the precious Ming Dynasty clay sculpture national treasure. Temple existing Buddha statue more than 100, mostly created by the Qing Dynasty. The rarest of them are the three Buddhas of the Yuan Dynasty, the eighteen Luo Han and the two-day statue. The 23 Buddha statues are made with the technique of pinching rice dry paint. Each Buddha weighs only 5-8 jin and can be lifted with one hand. Originally collected in the Forbidden City, they were worshipped by Empress Dowager Cixi and later transferred to White Horse Temple in 1972. Started from the warring States period of dry lacquer technology, simply put: first with silt into the original tire, and then with paint, hemp, silk, silk layer by layer, after the paint dry, painted gold, the final mud tire empty. Therefore, the whole hollow Buddha is large in size but very light in weight. Unfortunately, this process has been lost in the Yuan Dynasty, now domestic ramie lacquer craft made of only 28 Buddha, extremely precious. The Buddhist buildings of Thailand, Myanmar, India and other countries are displayed in the exhibition area of the foreign Buddhist temple at the White Horse Temple. The dome-shaped pagoda above is a prototype of the Buddha built by the Ayu king of India's peacock dynasty in the 3rd century BC to house Buddha Sherry, in the Buddhist shrine of Sangi. The sacred building, which absorbs Persian and Greek architecture and carving art, was added to the World Heritage List in 1989.
