Moni Hall and Revolving Sutra Repository, Longxing Temple, Zhengding, Hebei 河北正定隆兴寺摩尼殿与转轮藏殿

Location: China, Hebei, Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang Google Maps Amap
Part of: Longxing Temple, Zhengding, Zhengding, Shijiazhuang, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit
Chinese Culture: Ancient Chinese Architecture, Chapter 1: Characteristics of Chinese Architecture; Ancient Chinese Architecture, Chapter 6: Five Dynasties, Song, Liao and Jin; A History of Chinese Art, Chapter 10: Ming
Nearby: Mount Cangyan ↙︎52km, Xibaipo ←︎53km, Mount Tiangui ←︎74km, Yongtong Bridge, Zhao County, Hebei ↓︎46km, Dharani Sutra Pillar, Zhao County, Hebei ↓︎47km, Zhaozhou Bridge, Zhao County, Hebei ↓︎50km, White Cloud Cave, Mount Kong ↓︎126km, Mount Wutai ↖︎129km, Baiyangdian Lake ↗︎147km, Yesanpo ↑︎171km

Longxing Temple is the great temple of Zhengding, and most of its surviving main buildings are Song work. The Moni Hall, of the Northern Song, has a cross-shaped plan with a projecting porch on each side and a roof of varied heights, a form Liang Sicheng called common in the Tang and Song but lost after the Ming and Qing. The Revolving Sutra Repository hall holds a revolving octagonal bookcase built exactly as the Yingzao Fashi prescribes.

Moni Hall and Revolving Sutra Repository, Longxing Temple, Zhengding, Hebei

Photo: E2568 (CC0, Wikimedia Commons)