Dule Temple - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dule Temple - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Dule Temple (Also translated: Monastery of Solitary Happiness) is a Buddhist temple located in Jizhou District of suburban Tianjin, China. The temple is of historical as well as architectural significance. Its oldest surviving buildings are two timber-frame structures, the front gate and the central hall (pavilion) that houses a colossal clay statue of the Eleven-Headed manifestation of the Bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara). Both structures date back to the Liao dynasty and are among the oldest surviving wooden buildings in China.Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Liao architecture, University of Hawaii Press, 1997 Read more on Wikipedia
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