Study on the Composition of Inner Mongolia Wudangzhao Monastery Building Complex

Abstract:

Tibetan Buddhist monasteries embody almost all achievements of the Tibetan community in religious, scientific, cultural and artistic. The erection of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries are closely related to the history of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia. As the Tibetan Buddhism had been spread to Inner Mongolia in different periods, Tibetan Buddhist monasteries presented different features in its architectural style. Wudangzhao Lamasery is the grandest integral monastery complex still remaining in Inner Mongolia.Its buildings have high value of art and characteristically Tibetan Buddhist Architectural style on monasterys arrangement and style. Different types of the building gathered together form a Tibetan monastery, buildings complex reflected the intact standard of Tibetan Architecture. They express the Tibetan traditional mountain worship idea, and Buddhist the Mandala Cosmology and Three Realms idea.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 357-360)
• Pages: 141-144
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.357-360.141
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Yun Zuo*
• Keywords: Temple, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Monastic Architecture, Wudangzhao Monastery

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