HanShan Temple Suzhou: Venice of the East: Jiangsu Province Tourist Attractions: Buddhism in China.
Hanshan Temple Complex Suzhou
Part 2
Preface:
This is the second page of photographs taken on a recent trip to HanShan Temple in Suzhou. There are additional photographs taken Inside HanShan Temple in Part One.
This page provides extra and larger photos to those that were published in the article at Magic City.
Photographs are presented in sequential order.
Surrounding the HanShan complex
On the bridge outside HanShan Temple and looking up the canal
This small canal has an island on the right side
The grand canal flows around the island
Looking the other direction
Looking back to HanShan Temple Pagoda
Looking down into another complex
Taken at the entrance to the Bell Tower Complex
Toward the Bell Tower
Looking to HanShan Pagoda
Underneath the Bell in the Bell Tower
The Bell and Gong
The Bell
Best Project of Great World DSJJNS
The Largest Buddhist Bell
Max. Dia. 5.242m
Height: 8.608m Weight: 108t
This Bell body is engraved with the 70094 words of lotus sutra (Saddharmapundarikasutra in Sanskrit).
Produced by Wuhan Heavy Industry Foundry.
Hanged in the Great Bell Garden of Suzhou Hanshan Temple on September 28,2007
Bell Tower and Stele
Best Project of Great World DSJJNS
The Largest Stele Inscribed with Poem
Total height: 15.855 m
Body Dimension: 10.215 x 5.319 x 1.281m
This Stele is made of Shandong Jiaxiang Blue Stone, and composed of stele cap, stele body and stele pedestal. Its facade is engraved with Zhang Ji's (Tang Dynasty) poem To Moor at Night at the Maple Bridge inscribed by Yu Yue (Qing Dynasty); while the back is engraved with The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra (Prajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra in Sanskrit) handwritted by Emperor Qianlong (Qing Dynasty).
Produced by Suzhou Geshi Artistic Engraving Studio.
Installed in the Great Bell Garden of Suzhou Hanshan Temple on June 30, 2007
Wang Yizhuo (Sealed)
Cai Feng (Signature)
Away from the Complex looking back up the side canal
Looking away toward the town center and the reworked canal
R.P.BenDedek is from Brisbane Australia and is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at http://www.kingscalendar.com His academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
He writes photographic 'Stories from China' and social editorial commentaries, both at KingsCalendar, and as a contributing newspaper columnist. He currently teaches Conversational English in China and in addition to his English Lessons at KingsCalendar, he has created specific sites for Students of English.
