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法门寺

Famen Temple

In China, many temples house treasures and artifacts, but the sheer quantity and quality of treasures in the Famen Temple is rare. Situated in Famen Town of Fufeng County, about 120 kilometers (about 74.57 miles) west of Xian, Famen Temple is renowned for storing the veritable four slivers of the finger bone of the Sakyamuni Buddha.

Famen Temple was established in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25--220), for carrying forward Buddhism. The most representative structures in the temple are the Famen Temple Pagoda and Famen Temple Museum.

At the center of the temple is the 13-tiered octagonal pagoda under which it is said, a sliver of the finger bone of Sakyamuni buried. In 1981, subsidence of the pagoda led to reconstruction, during which, an Underground Palace was discovered unexpectedly in 1987. Many royal treasures and jewellery were found here-more than 2,000 pieces surrounded the Tang mandala (geometric designs, usually circular, symbolizing the universe). The most precious are the four slivers of veritable finger bone of the Sakymuni Buddha. At present, this is the biggest Buddhist underground palace so far discovered. From the grand architectural style, it is said to have been established in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). But why, and how such precious treasures were stored under the pagoda. Tracing back to a most flourishing time in Chinese history, formerly, Famen Temple was the royal temple during the Sui Dynasty (581-618) and Tang Dynasty. Emperors in Sui and Tang believed that enshrining and worshiping the bone of Sakyamuni would bring riches and peace to the land and its people. So an offering of treasure to the finger bone was made, it was housed in the Underground Palace.

Due to the appropriate collection and further expounding of the cultural connotations of the treasures to the public, the Famen Temple Museum was established in 1987, which includes most of the precious treasures from the Tang Dynasty removed from Underground Palace, including gold and silverware, colored glaze ware, porcelain and silks. Owing to more and more tourists and their curiosity to the relics, two new exhibition halls were established in 2000. The exhibition area expanded from 500 square meters to 3,000 square meters, which well caters for the interest of tourists.

Nowadays, this, the most famous Buddhist temple, Famen Temple, plays a sovereign role in Chinese religion, and appeals to tourists from all over the world.

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Famen Temple is located 118km (73 miles) west of Xian and was built during the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220AD) to store a relic of Buddha抯 finger bone. In 1987 the largest Buddhist underground palace in China was also uncovered here.

The temple houses many precious treasures including more than 2,400 gold and silver items, glazed wares, porcelain, pottery, jewelry and textile products of the Tang imperial court.

岳麓书院英文导游词

Good morning! Ladies and Gentlemen：

Today we will go and visit the Yuelu Academy! Yuelu Academy
is one of the four famous academies in China,
and it was established
by Zhudong, magistrate of Tanzhou prefecture in 976A.D
at the time of Northern Song Dynasty.
The academy accepted disciples throughout
the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing
Dynasties. It was only in 1903 that the academy
was transformed from a school
of traditional Confucian learning to
an insitute of higher
learning and in 1926 it was officially
named Hunan University.

Early in 1015, Emperor Zhen Zong of the Song Dynasty awarded
the academy hid Majesty’s own
handwriting “Yuelu Academy” on a tablet.
Form then on many famous
scholars and great thinkers gave lectures here,
among them were Zhangshi,
Zhuxi and WangYangming, thus making
a great impact on the province’
s culture and education.
Most of the existing buildings here were constructions of

the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the bulk of the engraved stone plates
and
inscribed tablets have all been kept
intact, In 1956 the academy
was listed as a historical
site at the provincial level and later,
in 1988 it became
a historical site at the state level.
The last restoration
project started in 1981
and the major part
was completed in 1987.

Now, here we are at the “He Xi Platform”, “He Xi” means the
“the splendour
of the sunrise”, It was named by Zhuxi, a great idealist philosopher
of the Confucian
school during the Song Dynasty, The platform was
first built on the top
of Yuelu hill, by Zhanshi, and later in 1528,
a pavilion was built on it, But it became deserted with the passing
time. In 1790 Luodian, the master of the academy, built a platform at
the present site, In 1820, the succeeding master, Ouyang Houjun,

renamed it “He Xi Platform” in order to memory Zhuxi and Zhanshi.
It was restored in 1868.