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After Buddhism was introduced to Xi'an in 67 AD, it flourished in my country during the Han and Tang Dynasties. The ancient capital Xi'an has beautiful scenery. The more famous ones include Qinglong Temple, Furong Garden, Dacien Temple, Xianyou Temple, Daqin Jingjiao Temple, Daqin Temple, Daming Palace, Big Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild Wi

Xi'an Qinglong Temple is located in the north of Tieloumiao Village, southeast of Xi'an. It was built in 582 and was originally named Lingyan Temple. It was renamed Qinglong Temple in 708.

Qinglong Temple is one of the famous Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty was unprecedented, and the Buddhist temples in the city were even more prominent. Their wide spread is not only in China, but also influencing abroad.

It had a great influence on the development of Japanese religion at that time. From the early to the middle of the 9th century, scholarly monks who entered the Tang Dynasty to seek Dharma frequently asked monks to visit Chang'an. They had received Dharma at Qinglong Temple, making Qinglong Temple one of the most influential temples that spread Buddhist Tantra to the outside world.

In 583, Emperor Wen of Sui built the famous Royal Garden Furong Garden. In the Tang Dynasty, the garden was expanded. In addition to the addition of Ziyun Tower, Caixia Pavilion, Liangtang and Penglai Mountain in Furong Garden, a large-scale water conservancy project yellow canal was dug to expand the water surface of Furong Pond and Qujiang Pond. This place gradually became a place for royal families, monks and civilians to visit.

During the Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty ordered people to build the world-famous Buddhist temple Dacien Temple. Dacien Temple is one of the four major translation sites in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty and is also the ancestral home of my country's Buddhist Dharma-Essence and Consciousness-Only Sect. It has a history of more than 1,300 years.

Ci'en Temple was originally called Wulu Temple. In 648, when Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi, was the crown prince, he expanded it to commemorate his mother, Empress Wende.

Ci'en Temple is very large in scale, with 13 courtyards, nearly 900 houses, Yunge Zen Temple, duplex halls, and extremely luxurious. Xuanzang, a monk from the Tang Dynasty, was ordered by the imperial court and was the first abbot of the temple. He has translated Buddhist scriptures here for more than 10 years.

Inside the temple's mountain gate, there is a bell tower and a drum tower confrontation. The main buildings on the central axis are the main hall, Dharma Hall, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and Xuanzang Tripitaka Courtyard. Bells and drums are the orders of the temple, and there is a saying of morning bells and evening drums.

An iron bell hanging in the bell tower on the east side is about 15 tons and has a height of more than 3 meters.

Once students in the Tang Dynasty passed the imperial examination, they went to the Ci'en Pagoda to write their titles, called the Yan Pagoda, and later became one of the important cultural activities.

In 601, Emperor Wen of Sui built a palace on the north and south sides of Heishui River, and named it Xianyou Palace. The southern temple is called Xianyou Temple and the northern temple is called Zhongxing Temple. There is a Heishui Pond between the two temples, also known as Xianyou Pond.

According to historical records, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian was raised in Fengyi Prajna Temple since childhood. When he grew up, he returned to the Yang family, the nun Zhixian gave him a bag of relics in total.

In 601, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered 31 states across the country to build relic pagodas and worship them separately, and entered the pagodas at the same time, including the Dharma King Pagoda of Xianyou Temple in Xi'an. Later, except for the relics in Xianyou Temple, the situation of the other 30 pagodas and relics is unknown.

Later generations discovered a gold-pink coffin at the Dharma King Pagoda of Xianyou Temple. The glass bottle in the coffin contains 10 Sui Dynasty relics discovered for the first time in my country, as well as a double-sided stone tablet and a stone chamber. This is of great value in the history of Chinese Buddhism.

In the Tang Dynasty, Xi'an was changed to Chang'an and served as the capital of the Tang Dynasty. The palace city completely overlapped with XA City, while the imperial palace and the Ming city walls overlapped. The imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty, such as Zhaoling and Qianling, were mostly in XY City. Xi'an's religious culture was extremely developed.

Among the eight sects with far-reaching influence in our country and Southeast Asia, the ancestral homes of six sects are in Xi'an. Chang'an Buddhism has a significant influence on Buddhism in Japan, North Korea and Southeast Asian countries. Monks and Buddhists from many countries often come to the Buddhist temples in Chang'an to worship and exchange.

The temples in the Tang Dynasty, such as Xingjiao Temple, Caotang Temple, and Tibetan Buddhist temple Guangren Temple, have had a great influence in history.

Among them, the palaces with great influence include Louguantai, one of the birthplaces of Taoism in Zhouzhi County, Xi'an Eight Immortals Palace, Chongyang Palace, the ancestral temple of the Quanzhen School of Taoism, and Lintong Laomu Palace.

Christianity has been introduced to Xi'an for more than 1,300 years since the record of "The Chinese Monument of the Popular Nestorian of the Great Qin Dynasty". The famous Christian temple in the Tang Dynasty was the Nestorian of the Great Qin Dynasty. The temple is located at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain in Zhouzhi County, on the west side of the Louguantai, and only one ancient pagoda remains.

In 651, the *** religion was introduced to Xi'an. There are 21 mosques in Xi'an, of which the most influential mosque is the Grand Mosque.

Xi'an Grand Mosque is located in Huajue Lane northwest of Gulou, Xi'an West Street. Because it is far away from the mosque in Daxue Lane, and is large in scale, it is also called Toda Temple or Grand Mosque.

According to the existing inscriptions in the temple, the Great Mosque was founded in 742, which is the first year of Tianbao in Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. The temple covers an area of ​​more than 13,000 square meters and has a construction area of ​​more than 6,000 square meters. The entire temple is rectangular along the east-west direction, and is divided into four courtyards. The trees in the courtyard are shaded, the flowerbeds are arranged symmetrically, and stone carvings stand in it.

The famous Daming Palace ruins are located on Longshouyuan in the northern suburbs of XA city. They are part of the forbidden garden of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. The Daming Palace was originally the place where the emperor met. Later, during the reign of Wu Zetian, the Daming Palace was renamed Penglai Palace and presided over the government affairs here.

The Daming Palace was built in 634, and later it was repeatedly destroyed by war. In 896, the Daming Palace was burned down by fire. The Daming Palace ruins were 7.6 kilometers in circumference and there were 11 city gates. Danfengmen Street, the main street in the city, is 176 meters wide. Most of the more than 40 palace pavilions and pavilions that have been discovered are concentrated around Taiye Lake in the north of the city, mainly including the Hanyuan Hall, Linde Hall, Sanqing Hall, Qingsi Hall, Xuanzheng Hall and Zichen Hall.

The north of the Daming Palace is a palace-like garden area. The architectural layout is relatively sparse and the architectural forms are diverse, which can be regarded as a masterpiece of garden architecture in the Tang Dynasty.

Among the Buddhist architectural arts of Xi'an in the Tang Dynasty, the most famous are the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda.

The Big Wild Wild Pagoda, also known as the Dacien Temple Pagoda, is located in the Dacien Temple in the southern suburbs of XA. It was built in 652. In order to worship the Buddha statues, relics and Sanskrit classics brought back from India, Master Xuanzang built a five-story brick pagoda in the west pagoda courtyard of Cien Temple. The Big Wild Wild Wild Pagoda was rebuilt many times after it was rebuilt during the Chang'an period of Wuzetian. The Big Wild Wild Pagoda is a famous tourist attraction in Chang'an, so it has left the inscriptions of a large number of literati and scholars of all dynasties.

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a pavilion-style brick tower with a tower height of 64 meters and a 7-story tower body. The tower body is a square cone, forming a gap from the wood structure, and decreases from bottom to top in proportion. There is an arch door hole on each floor, which can be viewed from a railing. The entire building is grand, with a simple and steady shape, a coordinated proportion, and a solemn and ancient style. It is a relatively well-preserved pavilion-style tower. There is a staircase in the tower for people to climb and overlook the ancient city of Xi'an.

The Little Wild Goose Pagoda is also known as the Jianfu Temple Pagoda. The official name of the Little Wild Goose Pagoda should be the Jianfu Temple Pagoda. It is located in the Jianfu Temple outside the south gate of the city of XA. It was built during the Jinglong period of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty. It is a well-protected famous Tang Dynasty pagoda.

It has a beautiful body and is a beautiful Buddhist architectural art heritage of the Tang Dynasty.

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Jianfu Temple was built in 662. It was built by the royal family and royal family to offer blessings to him a hundred days after the death of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty. The Little Wild Goose Pagoda was built to store Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist pictures, etc. brought back by the Tang Dynasty monk Yijing from India.

The Little Yan Pagoda is located in Anrenfang. The pagoda courtyard where it is located is part of Jianfu Temple. However, the pagoda courtyard was not in Jianfu Temple at that time, but was across the street from the gate of Jianfu Temple.

During the wars in the late Tang Dynasty, Jianfu Temple was repeatedly destroyed and the temple was destroyed and destroyed. Only the Little Wild Pagoda was preserved.

The Little Wild Goose Pagoda is a densely-eave-like brick building with a beautiful tower shape. It is an exquisite architectural art heritage of the Tang Dynasty in my country.

The Little Wild Goose Pagoda preserves a large iron bell cast in the Jin Dynasty. The iron bell is 4.5 meters high and weighs more than 1 ton. It is engraved with the auspicious words "Long live the emperor, the minister left Qianqiu, the country is prosperous and the people are safe, and the ** will be long-lasting."
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