Wutaishan Yanqing Temple: Great Buddha Hall
Wutaishan Yanqing Temple Great Buddha Hall
CHINA, Shanxi, Xinzhou
Yanqing stands for Delayed Celebrations. The building is located within the grounds of Yanqing Temple and, based on its architectural features, it was most likely built during the Jin dynasty (1115–1234).
The three-bay by six-rafter Great Buddha Hall is square with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof. The eaves are supported by two-tier bracket sets with a single projecting bracket arm and downward-pointing cantilevers. There is an intercolumnar bracket set between the columns. The columns are linked together with architraves and upper architraves. The building has no interior columns. The four-rafter tie beam has been omitted, which is an innovation rarely seen in Chinese architecture of this period.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture T-Z, page 1298.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Johnson, Peter and Mankuang and Lancaster, Lewis,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture T-Z},
pages = 1298,
title = {{Wutaishan Yanqing Temple Great Buddha Hall}},
volume = 4,
year = {2016}}