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Guihua Temple
The Zhongdian Guihua Temple (also Songzan Monastery Forest) is in the
Foping Mountains north of Zhongdian county. It was built in the Ming
Dynasty as one of the 13 big Lamaist Temples in the Kangzang region.
The " Kangzang region " refers to the joint ports of Tibet, Sichuan
and Yunnan inhabited only by Zang people. During its time of greatest
prosperity, there were more than 3,000 monks in the temple. The
present monasteries were rebuilt on the original location using the
similar pattern and imposing manner of the former ones. It is composed
of well - arranged flat-roof houses row upon row from the foot to the
top of the mountains, like a neatly set-up mountain castle. |
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