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Tibetan tourist attractions in Gannan, Gansu: Dewacang Manjusri Temple

Dewacang Manjusri Temple stands majestically in the south of Labrang Temple, facing the Daxia River and leaning against the Great Sutra Hall of Labrang Temple. The third Dewatsang and Jamyang Tudanima founded the Dewatsang Manjusri Hall in Labrang Monastery in 1814. In 1817, three masters, Gyamyang III, Jigme Jiancuo, Gongtangcang III, Danbei Zhongmei, Dewacang III and Jamyang Tudanima, performed the consecration ceremony. Since then, the Dewacang Manjusri Buddha Hall has become a temple for monks and lay people to worship Buddha. Later, Emperor Jiaqing awarded plaques in four languages: Han, Tibetan, Manchu and Mongolian. During the "Cultural Revolution", the Manjushri Temple in Dewacang was completely destroyed.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the party’s ethnic and religious policies were gradually implemented. With the active help of monks and laypeople, and after full preparation, the restoration project kicked off in 1995. After five years of careful construction, the Dewa Cang Manjushri Hall regained its splendor and was successfully completed in the summer of 2000.

The Dewacang Manjusri Temple is four stories high and covers an area of ??780 square meters. Its exterior is a stone wall and the tamarisk wall construction structure is mainly Tibetan stone and wood. The exterior is stone and the interior is wood. Wood, no stone inside, clean and generous, strong and durable. There is a three-meter-wide corridor in the hall. Two walls are painted with stories about the Buddha's life. The main hall is inside, so it can be said that there is a hall within a hall. Its scale, type and number of Buddha statues are exactly the same as those in the original hall. It is square and well-proportioned, solemn and solemn. The main ridge of the top of the hall is equipped with a gilt copper vase, a banner, a dragon, a double deer listening to sutras and The pick-shaped gilt Sanskrit copper frame, under the flickering sunlight, the golden light flashes and is dazzling. The interior and exterior walls are written with gilt Sanskrit and painted with Buddhist murals. In the hall, there is a gilt bronze statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva with a height of 12 meters. On both sides of the main statue are gilt bronze statues of Sakyamuni Buddha and Maitreya Buddha that are more than 3 meters high. On the east, west and north sides of the hall, there are thousands of gilt bronze Buddha statues of Sakyamuni, about 1 foot 7 inches tall. Each Buddha statue is lifelike, kind and respectable.

The restoration and completion of the Manjushri Temple in Dewacang not only satisfies the spiritual wishes of religious believers to make pilgrimages and worship Buddha, but also adds a beautiful attraction to Labrang Temple.