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Guangtong Temple stele in Haidian District

Guangtong Temple stele in Haidian District
Guangtong Temple stele in Haidian District

Guangtong Temple stele is located in Haidian District, Beijing Jiaoda East Road No. 41, the old site was originally located in The North Xiaguan Primary School in Dongsheng Town, Haidian District, Beijing, is now in the Xizhimenwai Guangtongyuan residential community, Guangtong Temple is one of the "outer eight brakes" in the capital, formerly known as the Fawang Temple, the temple is the Yuan Dynasty Fawang Temple, the Yuan to the First Century, the abbot of the Ben brake Gui Jixiang built, for the Three Tibetan Master Merck Sha Shi Li Hongfa Dojo, the Ming Dynasty renamed Guangtong Temple, Ming Jia Qing thirty-eight years, the Great Eunuch Huang Jin reconstruction, heightened platform foundation, the temple in front of the ring with a low wall, there are tall buildings in the four corners, You can ascend to the top and look out, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the monks donated funds to repair the three halls of the Infinite Life Buddha Hall, the former is the Hall of the Heavenly King, the back is the Hall of the Great Treasure, the left and right rings are eighteen arhats, and then the abbot, each twenty-seven trees, as a zen hall, a hall and a kitchen, Ming Jiajing thirty-nine years, Qing Kangxi fifty-one years and Qing Yongzheng twelve years of reconstruction, the temple sits north to the south, there are five entrances to the hall, the temple has Ming Jiajing thirty-nine years of Ming Dynasty university scholar Xu Jie wrote, Ming Dynasty university scholar Yu Yao Li book, Chengguo Gong Xi Zhongzhi forehead "Shu Zhi Guangtong Temple Reconstruction Monument" stele two tong, Qing Kangxi fifty-one years of the Qing Dynasty University Scholar Yu Zhaosheng wrote the "Monument to the Construction of Guangtong Temple" stele, Qing Yongzheng 12 years of qing Dynasty University Scholar Li Zongwan wrote the article "Imperial Guangtong Zen Temple Stele", it is said that the story of the Beijing opera "Famen Temple" occurred in the temple, the Ming and Qing Dynasties here is a spring tourist resort, Guangtong Temple was destroyed in the early "Cultural Revolution", its temple site later became the site of the North Xiaguan Primary School, from 1988 to the early 90s of the last century, here was transformed into a residential community of Guangtongyuan, the temple was destroyed, and now only monuments, turtles, stone plaques, Ancient trees and the north wall of Guangtong Temple are now the third batch of cultural relics registered in haidian district census.