The Guangsheng Temple () is a Buddhist temple, located at the southern foot of Mt. Huoshan, 17 km northeast of

Hongtong County Hongtong County () is a county in the southwest of Shanxi Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Linfen. The county spans an area of 1,494 square kilometers, and has a population of approximately 766,579 a ...

Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...

, China. The temple was built in 147 and was changed to its present name in the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed ...

. It has three parts: the upper temple, the lower temple and the Shuishen Temple (Temple of Water God). The drama murals from the

Yuan dynasty The Yuan dynasty ( ; zh, c=元朝, p=Yuáncháo), officially the Great Yuan (; Mongolian language, Mongolian: , , literally 'Great Yuan State'), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after Div ...

are kept in the lower temple.Important Relic under National Protection The famous '' Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka'' was discovered at the Guangsheng Temple in 1933.

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