Yunju Temple

The Yunju Monastery or the Yunju Temple (Chinese云居寺/云居寺, Yunjusi Pinyin, English Yunju Temple / Cloud Dwelling Monastery ) in the large village Dashiwo (Chinese大 石窝 镇) of the Beijing Municipal Fangshan District, about 75 km south-west of Beijing, is a famous Buddhist monastery, in whose shrine valuable Buddhist relics have been preserved, including " bones of Sakyamuni ." At about 15,000 tablets of stone Buddhist sutras are from all over the engraved over 20 million characters - a work which in the 7th century at the end of the Sui and was started at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty and up to the time of the Khitan ( 907 - 1125 ) and Jurchen Dynasty ( 1125-1234 ) was continued.

Fearing destruction of the monks these stone texts then buried in caves and in mountain caves, including the famous thunder sound cave (雷音 洞, Leiyindong ).

The Pagoda and the stone tablets Sutras of Yunju temple in the city of Fangshan District (房山 云居寺 塔 及 石 经, Fangshan Yunjusi ta ji shijing, English Yunju Temple Pagoda and Stone Sutras at Fangshan ) are since 1961 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 1-66 ).

There were also inscriptions from the Nestorian (Ch Jingjiao ) " Cross Monastery " (十字 寺, Shizisi, English Monastery of the Cross) from the time of Mongol rule discovered (now in the Nanjing Museum held ).