What is the most effective use of Guangji Temple?

Marriage in Guangji Temple is very effective.

Every day, people come here in an endless stream to seek marriage and peach blossom, mainly for the goddess Guanyin in Tong Yuan Hall of Guangji Temple. There are three Guanyin Bodhisattvas enshrined in Tongyuan Hall, one of which is the Great Mercy Goddess Guanyin in the middle, Guanyin in the Yuan Dynasty in the west and Duoluo Bodhisattva in the Ming Dynasty in the east. It is said that as early as the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, people found it very effective to propose marriage in Guangji Temple.

Guangji Temple is not big as a whole, and there are no tickets, and there are no other projects for paying for marriage. You can also receive incense for free. If you want to find a quiet place in Buddhism, Guangji Temple is definitely one. The whole temple retains the pattern of the Ming Dynasty, and also collects many cultural relics, such as the Buddha III and the Eighteen Arhats in the Ming Dynasty, the white marble platform built in the Kangxi period, and the bronze tripod in the Qianlong period. The yard is not big, and there are not many tourists. Basically, they are pilgrims who come to pray for blessings. They are quaint and quiet.

Layout structure of Guangji Temple

The central axis buildings of Guangji Temple are now the mountain gate, the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Tongyuan Hall, the Duobao Hall and the Relic Pavilion in turn. The roof of the temple, or paved with yellow glazed tiles or green glazed tiles or yellow and green, is shining and solemn. On both sides of the building are the Bell and Drum Tower, the East-West Annex Hall, the Sengliao and the East-West Zhangshi. In addition, there are east-west courtyards, especially in the northwest corner of the temple, there is a white marble altar built in the seventeenth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1678), which is really jade carved and very beautiful.

Tan Jie, now the Third School, was the only Tan Jie in Beijing in the early Qing Dynasty, and it has been well preserved so far. The layout of the whole temple is rigorous, neat and symmetrical, with scattered courtyards, deep courtyards, winding paths, simple and elegant, solemn and solemn, which is a typical official Buddhist temple building in Qing Dynasty. The government allocated special funds for many repairs, which made the temple more neat and solemn and the environment elegant.

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