The rebuilding of the Great Buddha Temple in Shandan County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province was damaged by the fire, and the neighboring cultural protection unit was not affected.
According to the China News Agency, the Propaganda Department of the Shandan County Party Committee of Zhangye City, Gansu Province reported on Tuesday (July 25) that at 4 o'clock on the 24th, a fire broke out in the Shandan Great Buddha Temple, which is being repaired.Organizational forces were rescued, and the fire was extinguished at 10:00 on the same day, without causing casualties, and the cause of the fire was under investigation.
The Great Buddha Temple of Shandan Da Buddha Temple was completed in 1998 and is adjacent to the site of the county -level cultural relics protection unit.The report said that the fire caused damage to the Great Buddha Temple, but the ruins of the Great Buddha Temple of the county -level cultural relics were not affected by the fire, and the preservation was intact.
The Shandan Da Buddha Temple is located at the foot of the mountains 5 kilometers in the west of Shandan County. The old name "Tufo Temple" was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 425), which is more than 1,500 years ago.Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen once wrote the plaque "Tufo" to the temple, and the Tufo Temple was named.The temple has been repeatedly warned in history and has been rebuilt again.
Since 1992, the then Master Shi Juehui Master Shi Juehui Bayang Huayuan was the support and donation of the famous Buddhist activist in Baolian Temple in Hong Kong.Yuan RMB (approximately S $ 3.16 million) was rebuilt on Shandan Great Buddha Temple, and it officially opened in 1998. The temple has the world's largest indoor clay sculpture to sit in Buddha.The temple is a national 4A -level tourist attraction in China.
