History
The temple was first built in the early 7th century. In 616, the first Buddhist stone scripture tablet was made at the temple by a monk named Jingwan. Because there were debates going between Buddhists and Daoists, and Jingwan feared reprisals from Daoists, he decided to carve his scriptures on stone instead of writing them on paper. The work on the stone tablets continued on for more than a thousand years before ending in 1655. In the Sui and early Tang twelve sutras were carved. In the Liao and Jin the Khitan Tripitaka 《契丹大藏經》 was carved and this is the only one of this version of the Chinese Buddhist canon surviving today. In total, 1122 Buddhist scriptures in 3572 volumes were produced at the temple. In the 1930s, a significant portion of the temple was destroyed.
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