Xumi Fushou Temple
The Xumi - Fushou Temple or Temple of Happiness and Longevity of the Sumeru Mountain (须弥 福寿 之 庙/须弥 福寿 之 庙, Xumi Fushou miao zhi, English Xumi Fushou Temple / Temple of Sumeru Happiness and Longevity ) is one of the Eight Outer temples in Chengde ( Jehol ) in the Chinese province of Hebei. The Buddhist temple is located in the north of the park complex of the Summer Palace to the east of Putuo Zongcheng temple on the north side of the "Lion Tales" on a gently rising slope. The plant covers an area of 37,900 square meters.
The temple was built in 1780 to celebrate the 70th birthday of Emperor Qianlong (reigned 1735-1796, died 1799), to which the VI. Penchen Lama of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, one of the two former religious and political leader of Tibet, Chengde ( Jehol ), convey his congratulations came. For him, the emperor who built the temple. It is a replica of the temple Trashilhünpo ( Tibetan short Glücksberg ) are used, the traditional seat of the Tibetan Lama in Shigatse Penchen, and should give him to the accommodation and meditation. Its construction was for the strengthening of relations between the imperial court and the leaders of Tibetan Buddhism, and thus for the consolidation of the multinational state, of great importance.
Its main building, the Great Red Terrace ( Dahongtai ), has three storeys and above three-storey towers. The Miaogaozhuangyan - hall, in the preaching of the Penchen Lama, is the center of the plant. The Jixiangfaxi hall with a roof made of gold -plated copper tiles was the abode of Penchen Lama. Other buildings are the octagonal seven- Liuli Wanshou Pagoda ( a pagoda majolica - ie a pagoda of glazed tiles ) and it also prepared memorial arch ( Liuli paifang ). In the stele pavilion ( Beiting ) of the temple is a four -language memorial plaque with stone carvings in Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan script with an inscription that commemorates the events.
The Xumi - Fushou Temple ( Xumi Fushou miao zhi ) is since 1961 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 1-118 ).