Golden Ginkgo
Towering Wood Pagoga
Qiling Pagoda seen at Daming Temple, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The amazing wood pagoda was built some time in 600 A.D. which was used to enshrine Buddhist relics. Daming Temple is most famous for the Yangzhou monk Jianzhen, who studied the sutras and initiated people into monkhood in 742 A.D. before leaving to spread the Buddhist faith and Chinese medicine and culture in Japan.
During World War II China implored its American ally not to bomb Kyoto or Nara in Japan because of Jianzhen’s missionary work there. Neither city was touched.
During China’s Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, Red Guard extremists attempted to destroy Daming Temple but were prevented from doing so by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, who forcefully argued that harming the temple would provoke an international incident with Japan.
Towering Wood Pagoga
Qiling Pagoda seen at Daming Temple, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The amazing wood pagoda was built some time in 600 A.D. which was used to enshrine Buddhist relics. Daming Temple is most famous for the Yangzhou monk Jianzhen, who studied the sutras and initiated people into monkhood in 742 A.D. before leaving to spread the Buddhist faith and Chinese medicine and culture in Japan.
During World War II China implored its American ally not to bomb Kyoto or Nara in Japan because of Jianzhen’s missionary work there. Neither city was touched.
During China’s Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, Red Guard extremists attempted to destroy Daming Temple but were prevented from doing so by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, who forcefully argued that harming the temple would provoke an international incident with Japan.