Shenyang is the most ancient tower

Amala bare stupas are the oldest tower of shenyang, in shenyang Huanggu District tower bay street lane 45 15, majestic, long history.Eg it ancient color desolate, and your charm and grace.

Stupas built in the liao dynasty heavy enghish thirteen years (1044), six years qing chong DE reconstruction.For pagoda for hidden within 1548 buddhist relics, say again so no dirty bare stupas.And because tower is located in the tower bay street, commonly known as tower bay stupas.Qing qianlong when formerly Mukden Zhang Bailing fu cheng, in "of shenyang tao" poem describes the scenery of the "tower bay afterglow" : "a bay shadow spring of water, cold food smoke tree tree new;Yu Chun suspected the rain to the eye, 13 mountain lust retention."Poetry vividly describes the stupas and surrounding the beauty of the scene."Afterglow" tower bay is one of the famous eight sights in shenyang.

About the construction of the tower, and folk legends.According to legend, in ancient times often appear disasters in shenyang area.Once the storm, wind blowing with seven days and seven nights, so that the river cut-off, the well is dry, crops, people can't bird.Alms at this time, a monk to this, tell the people, saying, this is huanglong descent from heaven.Huanglong people hear after begging monk uniforms, save oh on the fire and water.Monks looked at shenyang terrain, confirm the tower bay is the leading place of the yellow dragon.Here is the high of the shenyang, sun be the spirit foot, feng shui is good, then with two of his disciples built tower in tower bay, approach to worship, will eventually Huang Longsuo live, people ever after peace day.The people for the sake of gratitude the monks, built a on taptempleCall back to the dragon temple, for the monks live.Monks died, his apprentice in order to commemorate him, temple ram in the stupa.

Tower bay stupas, thirteen layer solid dense eaves, about 33 meters high tower, the whole is divided into five parts, namely: dungeons, tower, tower, tower eaves, DaCha.Located just below the base, underground buried Shi Han, copper buddhist relics, tin box, box, gold box, silver box save sarira appliance, etc.There are copper, copper, copper furnace, such as bronze relics.

After the completion of stupas, people often come here to burn incense to pray at all levels in the past dynasties, promise bless good crop weather, I have to remove.Especially in the qing dynasty had promoted Buddhism, chong DE five years (1640), the tower after repair, after the tower sarira temple built on a big scale, more make the legend behind, nissin reputation.

After the liberation, the people's government of the utmost importance to stupas, announced in 1962 for city-level key units to be protected.Modified many times.In 1985, the people in rebuilding this tower unearthed a Shi Han, the above words reveal the real origin of stupas.

Buddhism prevailed in the liao dynasty from the emperor from the people, everyone is special Buddha buddhist, so repair the temple built tower wind is.The people to pray for the good crop weather, peaceful country and safe people, and all the people happy ", a total of 1500 people volunteered to investors to build stupas.Each give information and how many are on Shi Han, to show the size of the merits.Financing business, it is said, and will list and raise funds recorded, is handed down from here.

The past record has been that the tower is the solid tower, rebuilt in 1985 found that this tower for the hollow structure, it is extremely rare in the liao tower.Found this tower, placed in the palace, the palace with a large tang-style murals, the color is gorgeous, bright line and lively clear, has high artistic value.In the palace is also found that a statue of fine gold Buddha, a letter of cultural relics of the ancient buddhist scriptures, one containing many of the cases.Brass Buddha about 43 cm tall, weighs more than 20 kilograms, removing the soil after immersion, still glittering, glorious takes a person.The statue of sakyamuni Buddha wearing robes, eye closure and sit, look pleasurable, serene dignity.Although I do not know in what year was made, who came from the hand, but on the beauty of its image, fine casting, is a very precious art market.In addition, also found in tower a censer, Taiwan wax, porcelain, etc.

In on the north side of the tower, and built a ancient sweet patina of archaize hall, this is the pagoda relics exhibition hall.Hall not only display the amala bare stupas in the cultural relic, and display the has been pulled down in shenyang, the original worship shou temple tower, yanshou temple and stone Buddha temple towers etc to the liao, the original ancient pagoda architectural structure and artistic style of model, and in the more than one thousand pieces of precious cultural relics unearthed in the ancient pagoda.There are hundreds of unearthed from shou temple tower sarira of colours, shapes, although the raw material is different, but sings is working fine, and its glory.Have found in yanshou temple of a statue of Jin Gangfo, its modelling for men's and women's double body, the hands hold pestle, spear, throwing knives, bells and so on.There are a lot of all kinds of statues, murals, books, etc.In this exhibition hall of 300 square meters, it is more than gu, beautiful.

According to concerning personage introduction, after repairing stupas restores former appearance, tower before back to the dragon temple also reconstruction on the site, and gardens in the surrounding facilities.Under the stupas rendering a dagoba cultural park, covers an area of 82000 square meters, 20000 square meters of artificial lake.Famous shenyang, one of the eight sights "afterglow" tower bay will recur, people standing beside the lake appreciate the stupas reflection time not too long.