Tianning Temple Main Hall
Tianning Temple Main Hall
CHINA, Zhejiang, Jinhua
The temple was built between 1008 and 1016 during the Northern Song dynasty, and was reconstructed in 1318 during the Yuan dynasty. It was listed as a National Cultural Heritage Site in 1988.
The three-by-three bay hall has a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and each side measures 12.7 m long. The interior of the hall is supported by 16 wooden columns. The main beam is made from a single log, while the corners are supported by numerous bracket sets, which look like hundreds of birds. It is one of the last three surviving timber structures from the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) in southern China.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture T-Z, page 1124.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Tianning Temple Main Hall." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture T-Z, vol. 4, 2016, pp. 1124.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang and Lewis Lancaster. 2016. "Tianning Temple Main Hall" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture T-Z, 4:1124.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, & Lancaster, L. (2016). Tianning Temple Main Hall. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture T-Z (Vol. 4, pp. 1124).
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