Nanputuo Temple is located at the foot of Wulong Peak in the southeast of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, adjacent to Xiamen University and facing Bichenghai Port. The temple covers an area of 258,000 square meters with a building area of 2127,000 square meters. Founded in the late Tang Dynasty, it was originally named Sizhou Temple and later renamed Song Zhiping Zhao Pu Temple. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the temple was abandoned and was not rebuilt until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.
Because it is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, it is similar to Guanyin Dojo in Putuo Mountain, Zhejiang Province. It is named "Nanputuo Temple" in the south of Putuo Mountain and is one of the Buddhist resorts in southern Fujian. The bloody book The Lotus Sutra and the famous white porcelain Guanyin in He Chaozong are the most precious in the temple during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The main buildings on the central axis of Nanputuo Temple are Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall, Great Compassion Hall and Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
Architectural model
Nanpuyuan Temple faces south, facing the mountain and the sea. The scale is grand and the momentum is solemn. The main buildings on the central axis are the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Le Tu Hall, the Great Compassion Hall and the Sutra Pavilion. Among them, Tianwang Temple is located at the front end of the central axis of the temple, where the smiling Maitreya Buddha is enshrined. On both sides are four glaring kings, and behind the temple is the Wei Tuo Bodhisattva, who stands erect and majestic.
The halls and pavilions are raised layer by layer along the mountain, with distinct levels and corresponding elevation, and the corridors on the east and west sides are raised in turn to protect the two sides of the three main halls. All the buildings in the temple are decorated with ancient palace-style double-cornice roofs and apricot tiles to make them unified and coordinated. Then the whole temple complex is surrounded by stone walls, such as scattered beads, forming a whole.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanputuo Temple