Tuolin Temple is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, at the northwest foot of Lushan Mountain, with the incense burner and Tiandi Peak in the south, the watershed and the tower above it in the north, Gu Xiang in the northwest and Wulongtan in the southeast, with magnificent terrain. In front of the temple, the hall is open, the incense burner peak is worshipping, the purple smoke lasts for thousands of years, and the tiger stream has a sense of attachment.
Liu Gongquan, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote the words "Liu Gongquan's miscellaneous temple" to praise the beauty of this temple. The original temple has magnificent buildings, reasonable layout, sheltered from the shade and embraced the sun, densely planted with pine and bamboo, and the stone path is covered with moss. Wandering among them, it is refreshing and refreshing, revealing the charm of paradise on earth and pure land.
architectural feature
At the beginning of the planning of Tolinji Pure Land Garden, it was designed on the premise of natural landscape control planning. The location of the core landscape giant Buddha, the direction of the central axis of the whole park, the scale of the main building, the facade of the building, etc. have basically maintained the original regulatory detailed planning and design intent requirements.
The architecture of the garden adopts the classic spatial hierarchical layout of ancient mountain forest architecture in China, which makes the whole Lindong Pure Land Garden closely follow the mountain trend. The central axis is planned as Shanmen Hall (and Tianwang Hall), Three Temples, Daxiong Hall, Buddha Pagoda, Covered Bridge, Giant Buddha Pagoda and other areas, and the Seven Gardens are carefully planned as Three Temples, Buddha Pagoda and Giant Buddha Pagoda.