chinese teple 中国传统寺庙.ppt

新浪微博@六月雪_1 Chinese Temple Introduction A Chinese temple is a worship place of the Chinese folk religion, where people revere ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors. They can be distinguished into: miào (庙) or diàn (殿), simply meaning temple and mostly enshrining nature gods or national gods; cí (祠), cítáng (祠堂), zōngcí (宗祠) or zǔmiào (祖庙), referring to ancestral temples, mostly enshrining the ancestral gods of a family or clan. Chinese Buddhist Temples The structure of Temples The structure of Temples 山门The Shan Gate is a single-story building that stands 10 meters tall and has three single-eaves Wudian roofs (Chinese: 庑殿顶 roofs with four slopes and five ridges). It functions as the front gate on the temples south side and houses the statues of two guardian kings. The structure of Temples The bell and drum tower 钟鼓楼 The heaven Palace 天王殿 The structure of Temples The main shrine hall 大雄宝殿 The structure of Temples The tripitaka sutra pavilion 藏经阁 Chinese Buddhist Temples The Dule Temple 独乐寺 It is a Buddhist temple located in the town of Jixian, in Ji County, under the administration of the city of Tianjin, China. The temple is of historical as well as architectural significance. Its oldest surviving buildings are two timber-frame structures, the front gate and the central hall (pavilion) that houses a colossal clay statue of the goddess Guanyin .Both structures date back to the Liao Dynasty and are among the oldest surviving wooden buildings in China. Ancestral shrine An ancestral shrine, hall or temple 祠堂;宗祠 also called lineage temple, is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in the Chinese traditional religion. Ancestral temples are closely linked to Confucian culture and the emphasis that it places on filial piety. Chen shrine in Guangdong 广州陈家祠 Taoist temple A Taoist temple 道观 where the Tao is observ