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'''Wenshu Yuan''' (Manjusri Monastery) in [[Chengdu]] is a major Buddhist sanctuary in [[Sichuan]]. Its predecessor was the Xinxiang Temple founded during the [[Sui Dynasty]]. It was expanded during the [[Song]], only to crumble in war and turmoil towards the end of the [[Ming Dynasty]]. When the temple was rebuilt in 1697 (36th year of the Kangxi reign, [[Qing Dynasty]]), a horizontal name board was bestowed on it. Inscribed on the board in the emperor's personal handwriting was the temple's new two-character name, kong lin, meaning "Void Forest." That is why, for a time, people called the monastery the "Konglin Temple."

The Manjusri Monastery today covers an area of 5,000 sq. m. Visitors are invariably impressed by its well-disciplined layout and the classic forms of its 200-odd buildings, including main halls and monastic residential quarters, which are uniform carpentry-masonry structures. A few years ago, a pagoda was erected there, the "Thousand-Buddha Pagoda of Peace," and 999 Buddhist figurines are carved into the stone walls on each of its 11 floors.
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imported>Ciic at 06:33, 2 June 2010