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Bagan Temple

The great Bagan Temple is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Burma (Myanmar). Bagan, also spelled Pagan, on the banks of the Ayerwaddy River, is home to the main area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. It was the capital of several very old kings of Burma who built perhaps as a lot of as 4,400 temples through the height of the kingdom (between 1000 and 1200 AD). In 1287, the kingdom fell to the Mongols, after refusing to pay honor to Kublai Khan and Bagan rapidly declined as a political center, but constant to flourish as a place of Buddhist scholarship.

From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, the first kingdom to unite the regions that would later make up modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height flanked by the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains by manually, of which the remains of more than 2200 temples and pagodas still endure to the present day.

Cockcrow Monastery Buddhist Monasteries Temple



It is one of the oldest famous Buddhist Monasteries Temple in Nanjing city. Cockcrow Monastery on the eastern foot of Jilong peak (Chicken Cage Mountain), the well-known Jihua Mountain one of the four Buddhist mountains in China and wonderful Xuanwu Lake  is to the east and to the north of respectively. As early as 300 AD, religious establishments had been place up. About 200 years later, Tongtai Buddhist Temple Monastery was built. It was the center of Buddhism of southern China, and visiting Indian monks had lived here. Since then Jilong Mountain has formerly been a holy land of Chinese Buddhism.

But a influential lighting blow on one day in 538 AD and a great fire was then blazed. It was only two small houses of the monastery temple were left. Ignored for 100 of years till 922, a new Buddhist monastery was built on the former site, called the Monastery of a Thousand Buddha, later on Yuanji Monastery. 

The great Buddhism Chion-in Temple


The great Buddhism Chion-in Temple was built in 1234 CE to credit the founder of Jodo (Pure Land) Buddhism, a priest named Honen, who fasted to death in the very spot. At one point in time, the complex had 21 buildings but due to earthquakes and fire, the oldest existing building is from the 17th century.

So, many country peoples coming to visit the Chion-in Temple must first pass through the biggest gate in Japan the two-story San-mon Gate. The temple bell is also a proof setter it weighs 74 tons and needs 17 monks to ring it during the New Year carousing.

Another motivating feature of the Chion-in Temple is the "singing" floor of the huge Assembly Hall. Called a uguisu-bari or nightingale floor, the shining wooden planks were designed to creak at each footstep to alert the monks of intruders!  

The Most Famous Buddhist Yumbulagang Temple

Buddhist Yumbulagang temple

Monasticism is one of the most famous original institutions of Buddhism. Monks and nuns are dependable for preserving and spreading Buddhist wisdom, as well as humanizing and guiding Buddhist followers. Buddhist monasteries emerged from the  perform of vassa, the retreat undertaken by Buddhist monks and nuns during the South Asian rainy period.

According to a legend Buddhist Yumbulagang temple was the first construction in Tibet and the palace of the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo. Its first name means “Palace of Mother and Son” in Tibetan. Below the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama the fort became a monastery of the Gelugpa School. Miserably, it was deeply spoiled and abridged to a single storey during the Cultural Revolution but was reconstructed in 1983.

The great Top 10 most famous Pha That Luang BuddhistTemple


 The great Top 10 most famous Pha That Luang Buddhist Temple Located in Vientiane, Pha That Luang (“Great Stupa in Lao”) is one of the most main monument in Laos. The stupa has numerous terraces with each level representing a special stage of Buddhist enlightenment. The lowest level represents the objects world; the highest level represents the world of oblivion. The Buddhist Pha That Luang temple was built in the 16th century on the ruins of an earlier Khmer temple. The temple was damaged by a Siamese incursion in 1828, then later reconstructed by the French in 1931.