Wenshu Yuan

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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.