It was built in the 11th year of Emperor Yongping of the Eastern Han Dynasty (68 years), with a history of 1900 years.
According to legend, Liu Zhuang, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, said, "Dream of gold at night, fly to the front of the temple and welcome it gladly.
Ask the ministers tomorrow, why is this God? "I replied that this god is a" Buddha ".
Ming Di sent ministers Cai Cheng and Qin Jing to Tianzhu (now Indian) to learn from the scriptures.
Cai Qing and Qin Jing retrieved Buddhist scriptures and statues, and took photos of Morten and Zhu Falan to Luoyang with Tianzhu monks. They collect scriptures and translate them in the Fissure Temple.
The following year, a temple was built and named White Horse Temple.
The temple site is located at1.5km west of Yong Men, the ancient city of Luoyang in Han and Wei Dynasties.
Baima Temple occupies an important position in the history of Buddhism in China, and is known as "the source of Buddhism" and "the ancestral hall".
The White Horse Temple, facing south, is a long courtyard with a total area of about 40,000 square meters.
The main buildings are Tianwang Hall, Giant Buddha Hall, Daxiong Hall, Jieyin Temple and Pilu Pavilion, all of which are listed on the north-south central axis.
Although it was not the "old school" when Tianzhu was founded, the temple site has never been moved, so the platform of the Han Dynasty,
The well is still faintly visible.
There are five halls, four courtyards and east and west wings.
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The whole temple has a regular layout and a simple style.
Outside the temple gate, there are stone archways, releasing ponds and stone arch bridges newly built in recent years in the south of the square, with green spaces on the left and right sides.
There are two stone horses on each side, about the size of a real horse, and the image is gentle and docile. These are two stone horses of the Song Dynasty, with a height of 1.75 m and a length of 2.20 m, and their backs are loaded.
According to legend, these two carved horses were originally in front of the tombs of Princess Xu of Yongqing and General Wei Xianxin of Right Horse, and were later moved here by the abbot of Baima Temple, monk Dejie.
Walking into the gate, there is a stone tablet on the west side of the building.
This was written by Su Yijian when he ordered the reconstruction of Baima Temple in Zhao Guangyi, Song Taizong. In the third year of Chunhua (992), a monument was erected in the temple.
The inscription is divided into five sections, written in a rectangular shape and named "Broken Monument".
On the east side of the mountain gate is a stone tablet named "Luo Jing White Horse Temple Ancestral Hall", which was built twice by Kublai Khan in Yuan Taizu. It was written by a well-educated monk in Baima Temple at that time. It was carved by the famous calligrapher Zhao Mengfu in Shunshun four years (1333) and stood in the temple, so it was called "Zhao Monument".
The gate of Baima Temple adopts archway three-hole stone arc gate.
"Shanmen" is the main entrance of Buddhist temples in China, which generally consists of three doors, symbolizing the "three liberation doors" of Buddhism, such as "empty door", "non-phase door" and "reactive door".
Because many temples in ancient China were built in mountain villages, they were also called "Shanmen".
Twenty-five years of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1546)
Has been rebuilt.
The red lintel is embedded with the inscription of "White Horse Temple" in bluestone, which is a relic of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the earliest monument of White Horse Temple, just like the handwriting on the arch stone of bridge opening leading to the cool platform in Jieyin Temple.
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On the east and west sides of the mountain gate are the tombs of two monks, Shemoteng and Zhu Falan.
From south to north, the five main halls are the Heavenly King Hall, the Giant Buddha Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Jieyin Hall and the Pilu Hall.
There are statues in every hall, mostly works from Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Pilu Hall is on the balcony, where Morten and Zhu Falan translated Buddhist scriptures.
The east and west wings are symmetrical.
The whole building is grand and solemn, with neat layout.
In addition, there are more than 40 inscriptions, which are of great value to the study of temple history and Buddhist culture.
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