Xining Nanchan Temple

Nanchan Temple is a Buddhist sanctuary situated close to the town of Doucun on Wutaishan, Shanxi Province, China. Nanchan Temple was worked in 782 amid China's Tang line, and its Great Buddha Hall is as of now China's most seasoned safeguarded timber building surviving, as wooden structures are frequently inclined to flame and different annihilations. Not exclusively is Nanchan Temple an essential design site, yet it additionally contains a unique arrangement of imaginatively imperative Tang models dating from the time of its development. Seventeen models share the corridor's inside space with a small stone pagoda.

As the most established surviving timber-outline working in China, The Great Buddha Hall is an imperative working in the comprehension of Chinese building history. The unassuming building is a three cove square corridor that is 10 meters down and 11.75 meters over the front. The rooftop is bolstered by twelve columns that are embedded specifically into a block establishment. The hip-peak rooftop is bolstered by five-puzuo sections. The lobby does not contain any inside segments or a roof, nor are there any swaggers supporting the rooftop in the middle of the segments. These highlights demonstrate this is a low-status structure.

The hall contains a few highlights of Tang Dynasty lobbies, including its more drawn out focal front inlet, the utilization of camel-bump props, and the nearness of a yuetai. The Great Buddha Hall additionally contains one small cut stone pagoda that is five levels high. The main level is cut with an anecdote about the Buddha, and each corner contains an extra small pagoda. Each side of the second level is cut with one expansive Buddha in the inside, flanked with four smaller Buddhas on each side. The upper three levels have three cut Buddhas on each side.