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Temple architecture of Wanxiang Temple
The halls are built from bottom to top along the north-south central axis, including the Heavenly King Hall, the Hades Hall, the Ursa Mahayana Hall, the Lohan Hall, the Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, the Sutra Hall and the East-West Attached Hall. They are built on four balconies from south to north, spanning five floors, with more than 500 meditation rooms (there are more than 65,438+000 existing rooms). The Heavenly King Hall is three rooms wide and one room deep, and there are cloisters in front and back for the four kings to use. Tianwang Temple doubles as Sanmen (Sanmen is also called "Shanmen", named after the temple living in the mountains).

The three gates symbolize three gates of liberation (empty gate, no gate, no gate). There is a stone courtyard wall in front, and the ditch outside the wall is 10 meters deep. Due to the limitation of terrain, the temple gate opens on the west side, which is different from other temples. The second platform is above the three intermittent mountain hall (also known as Luohan Hall), where the Dajingtang and the left and right affiliated halls are built.

Dajingtang (or chanting hall or Ursa Mahayana Hall) is a Tibetan-Chinese two-story building with 8 1 meditation rooms. The first floor consists of a front porch, a prayer hall and a Buddhist temple. The front porch is luxurious, with five rooms wide and one deep, painted columns and beams, and complicated decoration. In the hall, vermilion columns are arranged vertically and horizontally, beams are arranged longitudinally, buckets are placed at the junction of beams and columns, and cross arch-shaped large bracing wood is used for transition, and the skylight is opened in the central inner groove. A Buddhist temple dedicated to Buddha statues was set up behind the main hall, with three rooms wide and one deep, which was covered by the original curtain. The middle of the second floor is a square three-intermittent mountain shape, and the roof is decorated with a well-shaped ceiling. The theme of the painting is dragons and Sanskrit mantras, and cloisters are built on both sides. In terms of architectural form, decorative content and color, it combines the traditional styles of Han and Tibetan temple architecture. The sutra depository is a pavilion with five hard mountains on the second floor. The Yanwang Temple is a combination of a front porch with a roll shed and a small building on a hard hill.

In addition, there are three Gu Song trees in front of Dajingtang, one is black pine, the other is Platycladus orientalis and the other is spruce. It is identified as the oldest spruce pine in Chaoyang area with a tree age of about 760 years.

Dajingtang (or chanting hall or Daxiong Hall) is a Tibetan-Chinese building with two floors. The first floor consists of a front porch, a prayer hall and a Buddhist temple. In terms of architectural form, decorative content and color, it combines the traditional styles of Han and Tibetan temple architecture.

Three ancient pine trees in front of Dajingtang add to the ancient and profound atmosphere of the temple. A spruce, several times older than Vientiane Temple, can be regarded as the oldest spruce in Chaoyang area.