五台山位于中国山西省东北部忻州市五台县东北隅,位居中国四大佛教名山之首,被称为“金五台”,被认为是文殊菩萨的道场。五座山峰(东台望海峰、南台锦绣峰、中台翠岩峰、西台挂月峰、北台叶斗峰)环抱整片区域,顶无林木而平坦宽阔,犹如垒土之台,故而得名。 五台山是中国唯一一个青庙(汉传佛教)黄庙(藏传佛教)交相辉映的佛教道场,因此汉蒙藏等民族在此和谐共处。五台山据传拥有寺庙128座,现存寺院共47处,台内39处,台外8处,其中多敕建寺院,多朝皇帝前来参拜。著名的有:显通寺、塔院寺、菩萨顶、南山寺、黛螺顶、广济寺、万佛阁等。
With its five flat peaks, Mount Wutai is a sacred Buddhist mountain. The cultural landscape is home to forty-one monasteries and includes the East Main Hall of Foguang Temple, the highest surviving timber building of the Tang dynasty, with life-size clay sculptures. It also features the Ming dynasty Shuxiang Temple with a huge complex of 500 statues representing Buddhist stories woven into three-dimensional pictures of mountains and water. Overall, the buildings on the site catalogue the way in which Buddhist architecture developed and influenced palace building in China for over a millennium. Mount Wutai, literally, 'the five terrace mountain', is the highest in Northern China and is remarkable for its morphology of precipitous slopes with five open treeless peaks. Temples have been built on this site from the 1st century AD to the early 20th century.
国别 | 中国 China |
中文名称: | 五台山 |
英文名称: | Mount Wutai |
类别: | 文化遗产 |
登录年份: | 2009 |
标准: | (ii)(iii)(iv)(vi) |