Zhanshan Temple, Buddhist temple in Shinan District, Qingdao, China.
Zhanshan Temple stands on the southern slope of Zhanshan in Qingdao's Shinan District, facing the Yellow Sea. Completed in 1945, its buildings are arranged in a rectangular plan around a central path, with the Drum and Bell towers flanking the entry, followed by the Four Heavenly Kings Hall, Mahavira Hall, Hall of Three Saints, Preaching Hall and Hall of the Recumbent Buddha. A seven-storey brick stupa and the Olympic Mascot Bell Tower lie to the right of the grounds.
Ye Gongchuo chose the site after finding that the Ming monk Hanshan had practiced south of Zhanshan; the temple was planned from 1933 and completed in 1945. Its first abbot, Tanxu, founded the Zhanshan Buddhist College, and the Vinaya master Hongyi came to lecture on monastic discipline. It is counted among the last major Buddhist monasteries built in modern China.
The temple belongs to the Tiantai school of Buddhism. Its first abbot, Tanxu, founded the Zhanshan Buddhist College, and the monk Hongyi came here to lecture on the Vinaya. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, the Buddha's birthday, thousands of Buddhists gather in the grounds.
The temple lies on the southern slope of Zhanshan in Shinan District, facing the Yellow Sea. Most halls stand in a rectangular layout along a central path, with the stupa and the Olympic Mascot Bell Tower to the right of the grounds. Reaching the top of the bell tower costs an extra 10 CNY.
Hong Kong's Cham Shan Monastery in the New Territories was modelled on this temple and takes its name from it. The temple also keeps a bell cast for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Olympic Mascot Bell, set in a tower on the right of the grounds; a small extra charge applies to climb it for the view.
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