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Xuanzang Temple
Xuanzang Temple, may refer to: * Xuanzang Temple (Nanjing), Buddhist temple in Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China *Xuanzang Temple (Taiwan) Xuanzang Temple or Syuentzang Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in the Sun Moon Lake tourist area, Yuchih Township of Nantou County, Taiwan. History Syuentzang Temple was built in 1965 by the Nantou County Government in honor of Hsüan- ..., Buddhist temple in Nantou County, Taiwan {{Disambiguation Buddhist temple disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuanzang Temple (Nanjing)
Xuanzang Temple () is a Buddhist temple located within , in Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. History In the early winter of 1942, the occupying Imperial Japanese Army dug a stone envelope at the ruins of Sanzang Pagoda at Great Bao'en Temple which contained the Śarīra of the Tang dynasty (618–907) eminent monk Xuanzang. In early 1943, the Wang Jingwei government built a brick tower to worship the Śarīra of Xuanzang, which was named Sanzang Pagoda (). Xuanzang Temple was built by the Xuanwu District Government in 2003 in memory of eminent Buddhist monk Xuanzang of the Tang dynasty. , a leader of Qixia Temple, was proposed as abbot of the temple. In 2004, Xuanzang Temple was designated as a National Patriotism Education Demonstration Base by the Nanjing Municipal People's Government. In July 2022, memorial tablets of war criminals of the Imperial Japanese Army, including , Iwane Matsui, Hisao Tani was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuanzang Temple (Taiwan)
Xuanzang Temple or Syuentzang Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in the Sun Moon Lake tourist area, Yuchih Township of Nantou County, Taiwan. History Syuentzang Temple was built in 1965 by the Nantou County Government in honor of Hsüan-tsang (also romanized as Syuentzang or Xuanzang) (602–664), a prominent Buddhist monk who made a seventeen-year overland journey to India during the Tang dynasty (618–907) in the seventh century. It sits on a hill named "Cinglong" () near the Sun Moon Lake, the largest body of water in Taiwan. During the Sino-Japanese War, while the occupying Japanese Imperial Army was digging to establish a Shintoist shrine in Nanjing, unearthed there were the head bones of Xuanzang, which were confirmed by the Chinese and Japanese scholars jointly that had been transferred in 1027 from Changan to this place. For "safety from the deteriorating situation of China", they were moved to Ji-on Temple ( 慈恩寺), Saitama Prefecture, Japan. In 1955, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |