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White Horse Temple is the first ancient temple in China and the world-famous Galand. Located in Luoyang City, Henan Province, it was built in the 11th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 68). It is the first official temple built after Buddhism was introduced into China. It is the "source of Buddhism" (birthplace of Buddhism) and "ancestral court" (ancestral court) in China, Viet Nam, Korea, Japan, Europe and America.

Ming dynasty restoration

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Lin Ji Sect of Zen was the most popular. In the 23rd year of Hongwu (AD 1390), Zhu Yuanzhang built the White Horse Temple in Luoyang. During Jingtai period, the Ming government stipulated that the temple industry should be limited to 60 mu.

In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing (A.D. 1555), Jin, the eunuch and governor of the East Factory, once again carried out a large-scale renovation of the Baima Temple in Luoyang.

There are detailed information about this reconstruction on the stone tablet of "Rebuilding the White Horse Temple" inscribed in gold. This reconstruction basically laid the scale and layout of Baima Temple in Luoyang today, which is of great significance in the development history of Baima Temple in Luoyang. According to the ground survey after liberation, the total area of Baima Temple in Luoyang is about 40,000 square meters, which is basically the same as the record of 62 mu when it was rebuilt in Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Luoyang was once again destroyed by war.