Emei Mountain Baoguo Temple, China

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Baoguo Temple

Situated on the foot of the Emei Mountain, the Bao Guo Temple is 6.5 km away from the Emei Town and it is an important passageway that you must pass when climbing up to the Emei Mountain.

Built in 1573, in Wanli Year of Ming Dynasty, the Bao Guo Temple at that time was called "Huizong Hall". Later in Kangxi Year of Ch'ing Dynasty, it was repaired in large-scale, and then renamed to "the Bao Guo Temple" till now. The Kangxi Emperor wrote the horizontal tablet with "the Bao Guo Temple" on the mountain gate personally.

The Bao Guo Temple just lies on the foot of the Mount Emei, so the four big characters "Famous Mountain" just written on the memorial archway on the door of the Bao Guo Temple. There is the Maitreya Hall; the Great Buddha Hall, the Seven Buddha Hall, the depositary of Buddhist texts and so on.

The temple and the hall were built against the mountain terrain, divided into four layers and one layer is higher than another is, it appeared magnificent and grand. There is a "Phoenix Ground" as the shield behind the temple, is not far from the foot of the mountain. The Buddha statues are magnificent with golden light, it add the magnificent looks to the temple.

With many historical relics in the temple, while visiting the Bao Guo Temple, you can appreciate these historical relics at the same time such as famous colorful glaze porcelain Buddha. Built in 1415, with 24 meters high, the Buddha is sitting straight on the lotus form leaves, wearing lotus clothes with a thousand Buddha, the proportion is symmetric, and it looks very exquisite.

The purple copper Huayan Tower built in Wanli Year in Ming Dynasty is 7 meters high, having 14 layers, enshrined more than 4,700 Buddha statues in it, the "Scriptures of Hua-yan" carved on its body fully. The Shengji Wanzhong Pavilion on the phoenix castle in front of the Bao Guo Temple is long-age and that huge purple copper clock in the pavilion.

Due to the special location of the Bao Guo Temple, it is not only a temple for monks and priests observing and doing, but also the gate guard of the Mount Emei and a hot tourist location. There are display rooms of historical relics, painting and calligraphy, specimen of creature, motor-driven scenery areas with modern equipment detailed introducing the traffic routes when visiting the Mount Emei and so forth.