大同华严寺的历史变迁

The Historical Changes of Huayan Temple in Datong

大同华严寺,是辽代在旧寺院基础上兴建的具有与皇家祖庙功能相结合的寺院。在辽、金、元时期,寺院规模宏大,高僧辈出。元末明初遭毁坏后未能完整修复,明中期分为上、下两部分,其中以海慧殿修复、大雄宝殿内塑像的工程最大,布局上受禅宗的一些影响。清代华严寺单体建筑变小,布局上反映的教义较复杂,加入儒、释、道等多种复杂成分。

The Huayan Temple in Datong was a temple built in Liao Dynasty based on old temples also serving as a place for imperial ancestor worshipping. In Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, the temple reached its peak in scale and many prestigious monks were there. In late Yuan and early Ming, it suffered damaged and failed to be completely repaird. In the middle of Ming Dynasty,. Huayan Temple was divided into two parts, the upper part and the lower part, and two projects were the biggest, one was the restoration of Haihui Hall, the other was the molding of statues in Daxiong Hall, and the layout was influenced a little by Zen. And in Qing Dynasty, single buildings became smaller, and the doctrines seen from the layout was complicated, and elements of Confucianism, Daoism were added in it.