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"Xiangguo Monastery is located on Ziyou Lu Rd and was first built in 555. The Hall of Heavenly King, the Mahavira Hall, the Octagonal Glazed-Tile Hall, and the Scripture Preserving Hall are all structures of the Qing Dynasty. In the Octagonal Hall, you'll flnd a wooden statue of Avalokitesvara with four faces and one thousand hands and eyes. The 5-meter-high statue weighs 4 tons and is gilded all over, and it was carved from a thousand year old gingko in the time of Qianiong. In the Bell Tower, there is a giant bronze bell that was made during the Qing Dynasty. It is 3 meters high and weighs 5 tons. When it is striked, the bell can be heard all over the town. It is one of many attractions in Kaifeng."
http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/henan.html
Kaifeng, China Page
Other names: Kai-fêng Fu,K'ai-feng-shih,K'ai-feng-hsien,Kai-feng Fu
World:China:Henan Sheng
Lat 34.7911 Long 114.3483
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/9/Kaifeng.html
Jinhua Chen. 2005. Images, Legends, Politics, and the Origin of the Great Xiangguo Monastery in Kaifeng: A Case-Study of the Formation and Transformation of Buddhist Sacred Sites in Medieval China. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2005), pp. 353-378. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20064373
Input by: tmciolek, Aug 17, 2009
Final data (and their sources)
Last updated: 30 Jul 2014
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 200 m from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Xiangguo monastery, CN.
lat=34.7911 long=114.3535
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2009.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Xiangguo monastery - http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/henan.html
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- China:Henan Sheng
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
- [missing data]
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx., Lat 34.7911 Long 114.3535 - visual identification of the monastery in maps.google.com - tmc, 6 Jan 2010.
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
- [missing data]
6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- Kai-fêng Fu - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/9/Kaifeng.html
- K'ai-feng-shih - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/9/Kaifeng.html
- K'ai-feng-hsien - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/9/Kaifeng.html
- Kai-feng Fu - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/9/Kaifeng.html
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Approx., Lat 34.7911 Long 114.3483 http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/9/Kaifeng.html
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
- [missing data]
11. Date-early
- Est. 555 AD - http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/henan.html
MBM chrono-tag: 0533-66c - tmciolek 30 Jul 2014
0533-66c 0567-99c 0600-32c 0633-66c 0667-99c 0700-32c 0733-66c 0767-99c 0800-32c 0833-66c 0867-99c 0900-32c 0933-66c 0967-99c 1000-32c 1033-66c 1067-99c 1100-32c 1133-66c 1167-99c 1200=> dated-el
12. Date-intermediate
- [missing data]
13. Date-late
- Active during Qing Dynatsy - http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/henan.html
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
- [missing data]
15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- [missing data]
16. Additional notes
- [missing data] (incl. details of the size of the monastic population)
17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
- [missing data]
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