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Mingjiao Si ('''Mingjiao Temple''') in the city of [[Hefei]] stands on a platform that rises five meters from the ground. Its predecessor was the Tiefo (Iron Buddha) Temple founded during the [[Tianjian]] reign (503-519) of the [[Liang Dynasty]], but it was destroyed towards the end of the [[Sui Dynasty]]. During the Dali reign (766-779) of the [[Tang Dynasty]], a six-meter-tall iron statue of the Buddha was unearthed at the site. When [[Emperor Daizong]] (r. 762-779) got wind of this, he had the temple rebuilt and he named it the Mingjiao Monastery. During the [[Ming Dynasty]] it was renamed Mingjiao Temple. The temple crumbled as a result of war and turmoil in 1853 (3rd year of the Xianfeng reign, [[Qing Dynasty]]) but it was later gradually restored. The Mahavira Hall and the Posterior Hall have retained their original forms dating back to 1886 (12th year of the Guangxu reign, [[Qing Dynasty]]). As the Mingjiao Temple is in downtown Hefei and the site of such tourist attractions as the "well atop a house" and "pavilion to hear pines sighing in the wind," it is visited by tourists and pilgrims every day.
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imported>Ciic at 06:24, 2 June 2010