Babang Temple

Babang Temple

Babang temple is located on a hill 300 meters north of babang township government in dege County, with an altitude of 3800 meters. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province. Babang temple, whose full name is Falun Temple of babang holy religion, is the main temple of Tibetan Buddhism Kagyu sect in Kham district. Together with Chubu temple in Tibet, it is known as the two major resorts of Kagyu sect.

Baden xiangqiulinba, a disciple of dengsonggan in jueba, founded the first Zhigong Kagyu temple in Kangqu District in the third raojiang "year of the earth pig" (1179 AD) in the Tibetan calendar, and named it "Baden xiangqiuling". In the fifth raojiang "year of Iron Tiger" (1290 A.D.), Sakya official OLO led the army to burn the Zhigong temple, which was known as the "rebellion of Zhigong". The babang temple and the sub temples were also burned down one after another. After the restoration, the sect became the Sakya sect. In the twelfth year of Huoyang (1727 AD) of raojiang in Tibetan calendar, with the support of Keji danbaziren, the chieftain of dege, the babang temple was restored and rebuilt by situ kejijinai with benjue temple in GONGYA township as his mother temple, named "Falun Temple of babang holy religion" and converted to weigama Kagyu school. After promoting the Dharma and benefiting the life of living Buddhas, babang temple has become the second largest inheritance center of Gama Gaju Dharma vein in Tibet. After the founding of the Buddhist Academy of situ kejijinai, babang temple not only became the communication center of the disciplines of the big and small five Ming Dynasties, but also known as the birthplace of the Southern School of Tibetan medicine and the gamagazi School of painting.

Architectural features

Babang Temple means "auspicious Temple". According to historical records, babang temple has a history of more than 800 years since it was founded in Gaozong period.

Babang temple has a large scale and quiet environment. Its buildings are stacked along the mountain and the upper layer is ingenious. Jingfan flutter, Jinding resplendent, visible from ten miles. majestic. The hall is richly decorated with exquisite clay sculptures and murals, rich in posture, vivid and lifelike. It is known as the best temple building in Kangqu District, and also known as the "little potala palace". The temple integrates the architectural style of Gelug and Kaju temples, forming a magnificent and mysterious architectural style of both Gelug and Kaju temples. The main hall "zhuolakong" is built on the ridge of the hill. It is a quadrangle three-story building. The main hall is 2.14 meters high, and eight columns are thicker than the embracing. All of them are made by the whole trees of thousands of years old, which increases the momentum of the hall. The second floor is the living Buddha's residence, with carved beams and painted buildings. The four walls of the hall are painted with precious murals, including the story of Buddha Bensheng and the six samsara. They are vivid and colorful. They are masterpieces of the famous Tibetan painting "Kari" school. Babang Temple governs many temples, claiming to be 108. It is also known as three courtyards of big temples, five courtyards of small temples, thirty-five lecture halls and twenty-five Zen halls. It is distributed in India, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Yunnan, Qinghai and Kham district.

Most of the living Buddhas of the past dynasties in the temple have high living knowledge, and they attach great importance to religious cultivation. They write books and theories, and they all have their own achievements. Many works and paintings are still regarded as treasures. The eighth situ living Buddha, however, was very knowledgeable, intelligent, experienced, learned and wrote many works, especially in Tibetan grammar, Tibetan medicine and Tibetan painting. He created the famous karma Ba Bang School of painting. In the traditional Tibetan painting techniques, the school skillfully integrated the Han painting techniques and styles, and successfully developed the Kari School of Tibetan painting. Under his influence, the painters of babang temple came forth in generations, and their murals and Thangka paintings became the representatives of Kangqu Tibetan paintings, which were well-known at home and abroad.

There is an endless stream of worshipers chanting mantras, and the whole temple chants all the year round.

Babang temple's ethnic painting inherits the painting of Benbo school, school and GA school, and develops a unique ethnic painting school. There are twelve kinds of paintings, such as mural, budding, carving, sculpture, pile painting, printing, horizontal casting, Mandala painting, fine sand painting, Si Wen poetry painting, Tiao Pian painting and crisp oil painting. The principles of painting are as follows: first, the title of the painting is integrated with heaven, earth, man and God, and the scene story is set in one frame, which is similar to the composition of "scattered perspective" in Chinese painting; second, the symmetrical, balanced and dense layout relationship is emphasized, with occasional side leaning dexterity; third, the colors are mainly three primary colors and two secondary colors, focusing on the bright and gorgeous visual effect, and the painting style is elegant and dignified without losing the beauty of freshness and flexibility . So as to create a unique style of dege Tibetan painting, so as to be a typical representative of Tibetan painting.

Temple site

Babang Township, Maisu District, dege County, Sichuan Province

Address: dege County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 98.796571

Latitude: 31.646066