One of the earliest buddhist temple is the white horse temple in China

White horse temple is the first buddhist temple in China, is regarded as "China's first ancient"

White horse temple in luoyang 12 kilometers east, start-up monastery yongping eleven years (AD 68), more than one thousand nine hundred years of history, the first buddhist temple in China, is known as the Chinese buddhist statue "cradle" and "interpretation of the source", is regarded as "China's first ancient".

The eastern han dynasty emperor liuzhuang night dream god of gold from the west to fly around the court.So send eighteen people peoples, promise, in the big moon people (now Afghanistan area) in the tianzhu (India) monk was taken the teng, zhu flange, may see the buddhist statue.Yongping ten years, han make brahman monk to carry load charming buddhist statue to return, the following year, adding to the name of charming.

The tang dynasty when the grand scale, incense longsheng.34 years to rebuild jiajing of Ming dynasty, largely to lay the scale and layout of this white horse temple.Existing area of 40000 square meters.Distribution on the north-south axis of the main building has a great, big Buddha hall, male temple, temple, cool and refreshing and which the Lu Ge etc;Inside of the yuan dynasty temple statues to male have saved the paint Buddha statues iii, two days will be, the most precious 18 arhats.In addition to the yuan, Ming and qing dynasties as the clay sculpture, tang, song, yuan, Ming and by building stone inscription of each generation JiYun tower, tianzhu monk's tomb, burned by the table and places of historic interest.

Temple of Buddha temple hung a clock, luoyang, the eight scene of the "horse temple bells".It is said that when the beautiful and quiet night night, GengShenRenJing, monks pestle hit the great clock, the bell will ring from square miles, over a long period.Even more wonderful, because of the same melody, as long as the bell rang, in luoyang city 25 li from the tower clock and also answer.Every year,New Year's DayZero, will be held here spread for thousands of years greeting the New Year in.