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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akilar25" data-source="post: 9126456" data-attributes="member: 167921"> Luoyang White Horse Temple                                                                                                                             <img src="http://www.absolutechinatours.com/UploadFiles/ImageBase/1202875577636.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="http://www.absolutechinatours.com/UploadFiles/ImageBase/200712291810554588_b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />       The White Horse Temple (Baima  Temple) is located 10km to the north of Luoyang in Henan Province. It is  said, in the year of King Yongping of Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220  AD), the king sent monks Cai Yin and Cai Jing to India to ask for  scriptures of Buddhism. Three years later, they got the scriptures and  returned to China. During the return trip, they met  monks She Moteng and Zhu Falan near the north of Afghanistan. The two  monks took a white horse to help them transporting the scriptures back  to Luoyang. The year after they returned, a temple was built to keep  those scriptures, that is the White Horse Temple. The White Horse Temple  was the first temple built by the government after Buddhism of India  reached China, so people also called it "Grandfather of the Temples".   This temple was quite giant in Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD). Today, after  years of warfare, less than ten percent of the construction is  remained. It includes the Tian Wang Hall, Dafo Hall, Da Xiong Hall, Jie  Yin Hall, Pilu Garret, and Qing Liang Stand.   There are three Buddha Statues in  the Da Xiong Hall : Sakyamuni, Yaoshi, and A Maitreya. The most valuable  items in the hall are the sculptures of the Eighteen Disciples of the  Buddha, made during the Yuan Dynasty (1277 - 1367 AD). On the wall,  there are more than 5,000 shrines of wooden Buddha statues. There is  also a 1250kg weight giant bell in the temple. Every morning and evening  when the Buddhists are having their lessons, you can hear the loud and  clear ring of the bell. Since ancient times, the bell ring of the White  Horse Temple is one of the famous events in Luoyang. The Qing Liang Stand in the temple  is also famous. People believed monks She Moteng and Zhu Falan from  India once translated scriptures here. They stay at the temple and  regarded as their home until they die, people buried their bodies beside  the temple and that is today's Two Monks' Tomb. Many Tang scripture  monuments and Yuan inscriptions are important documents for scholars to  study the history and evolution of Buddhism. There is a 24m-high pagoda  in the temple named Qi Yun. It has four angles and thirteen floors,  originally built in the Tang Dynasty (923 - 936 AD), and destroyed in  the Song Dynasty but rebuilt in 1175 AD. There are a pair of white horses and  a pair of lions at the gate of the temple. They symbolize "if you are  going to study the deep knowledge of Buddhism, you should have a great  deal of perseverance and willpower, and you shouldn't be afraid of  difficulties". They have been standing at the gate and accompanying the  temple for more than a thousand years. In 1961, it became one of the  important preservations of cultural relics of the State.   When you are traveling around  Luoyang, you should not ignore such and important Buddhism scenic spot  with a thousand years' history.</blockquote>

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