Fahua Temple: Main Hall
Fahua Temple: Main Temple Gate
Fahua Temple
TAIWAN, Taipei
Fahua Temple was built in 1919 and belongs to the Nichiren School of Japanese Buddhism. It was reconstructed in 1989.
The temple consists of the main temple gate and the main hall. The main temple gate has an overhanging gable roof covered with Japanese cylindrical black tiles. The main hall has a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and an extended portico with a front-facing gable. The gable is decorated with bracket sets and cloud motifs. At the apex of the gable there is a Dharma wheel with a swastika in the center. There is a decorated beam between the two columns of the portico with bracket sets supporting the roof. The columns have couplets running down them. The hall houses statues of Sakyamuni Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, Medicine Buddha, and Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture A-F, page 282.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Johnson, Peter and Mankuang and Lancaster, Lewis,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture A-F},
pages = 282,
title = {{Fahua Temple}},
volume = 1,
year = {2016}}