World Cultural Landscape Heritage: Mount Wutai (15)

The best of Mount Wutai

The earliest temple of Mount Wutai: The Great Fu Tamawashi Temple, predecessor of the Xiantong Temple, was established in the 11th year of Yongping during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The more than 3,000-meter-long Yangtian Giant Buddha that was discovered in Mount Gongbu (located to the south of the Puhua Temple) with undulating ridges and peaks in 1996.

The tallest tower of Mount Wutai: The 56.3-meter-high Giant White Tower in the Tayuan Temple.

The tallest statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva in Mount Wutai: The nearly 9.9-meter-high statue of the Manjusri Bodhisattva riding on a suanni, a legendary animal, in the Shuxiang Temple.

The tallest Kwan-yin statue of Mount Wutai: The 17.7-meter-high statue of the thousand-arm and thousand-eye Kwan-yin in the Jinge Temple.

The longest stone step road of Mount Wutai: The 508-meter-long Dazhi Road that leads to the Dailuo Hill with a total of 1,080 stone steps.

The heaviest cupreous bell of Mount Wutai: The 9999.5-jin Youming Bell hangs in the bell tower of the Xiantong Temple.