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location_on Datong, Shanxi, China
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Huayan Temple or Huayan Monastery is a Buddhist temple located in Datong, Shanxi, China. Huayan Temple has been burned to the ground and reconstructed a few times. The Mahavira Hall and Buddhist Texts Library are still safeguard the engineering style of the Liao and Jin traditions 907– 1234. It is an aesthetic complex of old Chinese design, model, fresco and engraving, and also a social blend of religion and legislative issues. The sanctuary was first settled in 1038, in the seventh year of Chongxi period 1032– 1055 in the Liao tradition 907– 1125. The name of "Huayan" gets from Avatamsaka Sutra, which all the more regularly known as "Huayan Sutra" in China.

Some portion of the sanctuary was crushed in 1122, amid the war amongst Liao and Jin administrations. The Huayan Monastery complex is situated on Daxi Street on the south western side of Datong City, Shanxi Province. There are two separate areas to the religious community, the upper one alluded to as the Grand Hall lodging five extensive Ming Dynasty Buddhas, and the lower segment alluded to as the Sutra Temple containing a library of around 18,000 volumes of Buddhist compositions. Worked amid the Liao Dynasty 907 - 1125, it is the biggest and best protected religious community of the Liao Dynasty in presence in China.

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