Investor Presentaiton
Athens Journal of Architecture
January 2022
in front to show off the temple's authority, and the Hutuhetu Hall is built in the
back of the site to concentrate on the work of the live Buddha.
These temples do have not the characteristics of the Han Buddhist temple style.
All of them have the following characteristics of the Tibetan temple arrangement
plan (hereinafter referred to as the Tibetan temple style).
1. All buildings are freely arranged along the terrain.29
2. There is no wall surrounding the site.
3. Buildings such as the Monastery Gate, Tianwang Hall, Bell Tower, and
Drum Tower are omitted.
4. There are few types of buildings dedicated to Buddha statues.
5. There will always be the Buddhism Hall that teaches academics and The
Hutuhetu Hall.
The reason why the Xiaramuren temple and Badgar temple (Figure 13) were
built in this way was determined by the time and location fo construction. They
were built in the middle of the 18th century in the western region. It is the Qianlong
period of the Qing Dynasty; the whole region of Tibet and Mongolia were brought
under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty. So Inner Mongolia and Tibet became
the same country, and it makes easier to have religious exchanges between regions,
so Tibetan temples influenced Inner Mongolia temples in the western region more
than Han Buddhist temples compare with the eastern region.
Moreover, in terms of the building's kind, these two temples have many
buildings that pay attention to religious academic teaching, such as Exotoric
Buddhism Hall, Esoteric Buddhism Hall, Agwaa Hall, Lamrim Hall. Therefore,
when paying attention to the teaching of Buddhism, these temples also completely
imitate the free arrangement plan of temples in Tibet.
Do Hall
ArtHall
Mai Hall
GYH
A Hall
MHall
Tar Hall De Ha
D Towa B Tower
Ti Hall
Chaganbure Temple
(Eastern Region)
Figure 11. Model Figure of League Level/Integrated/Symmetric Type Temples
Source: Inner Mongolian Tibetan Buddhist Architecture (I), (II), (III).
29. Yongping Wang, Tibetan Buddhist Architecture In Lhasa (Southeast University Press,
2019), 58-59.
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