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116: 36: 123: 281:, an emperor of the Liang dynasty and a devout Buddhist, went in for large-scale construction of Buddhist temples. Baosheng Temple is the architecture from that period. In its heyday, it had more than 5,000 halls and rooms as well as thousands of monks, and its area covers half the town. 334: 533: 304:(618–907). They wrote articles in newspapers and magazines calling for the protection of these cultural relics, but they didn't attract the attention of the local government. 338: 523: 513: 51: 146: 115: 528: 518: 489: 508: 311:
collapsed for neglect, 9 statues of the Eighteen Arhats were demolished. Two years later, architect Fan Wenzhao designed and built the
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In 1961, the arhat statues of Baosheng Temple were listed among the first batch of "
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The original temple dates back to early 6th century, in China's
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The temple has a 1500-year-old and 50-metre (160 ft) tall
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The 9 statues of Eighteen Arhats created by Yang Huizhi of the
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invaded the temple and smashed the clay statues of the
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to the temple and they founded the clay statues of the
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Religious buildings and structures completed in 1932
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were made by a famous sculptor named "Yang Huizhi" (
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Affiliation
Buddhism
Deity
Chan Buddhism
Luzhi
Wuzhong District
Suzhou
Jiangsu
Baosheng Temple is located in Jiangsu
Geographic coordinates
31°16′32″N 120°52′41″E / 31.275428°N 120.878178°E / 31.275428; 120.878178
Style
Chinese architecture
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
Buddhist temple
Luzhi
Wuzhong District
Suzhou
Jiangsu
Jiangnan
Liang dynasty
Xiao Yan
Ye Shengtao
Gu Jiegang
Eighteen Arhats
Tang dynasty
Mahavira Hall

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