Reclined Buddah Temple
The Dafo Temple or Great Buddha Temple is a Buddhist temple in Zhangye, Gansu, China, notable for its gigantic reclining Buddha statue made around 1100 during the Western Xia period, which is thirty-five metres long.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 8:00 AM—6:00 PM
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: building in Zhangye, China
- Also known as: “Big Buddha Temple”, “Dafo Temple”, “Dafo Temple, Zhangye”, and “Zhang Ye Giant Buddha Temple”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zhangye.
Zhangye
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Zhangye is a city in Gansu Province with striking and beautiful mountain scenery nearby. As for most Chinese cities, the name "Zhangye" is somewhat ambiguous since it can refer either to the city itself or to the prefecture with that city at its center.
Reclined Buddah Temple
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Zhangye, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.92996° or 38° 55′ 48″ northLongitude
100.45468° or 100° 27′ 17″ eastOpen location code
8PC2WFH3+XVOpenStreetMap ID
way 458773994OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1563554
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Indonesian—“Reclined Buddah Temple” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dafo tenplua (Zhangye)”
- Basque: “Dafo tenplua”
- Burmese: “ဒဖိုကျောင်းတော် (ချောင်ယဲ့)”
- Burmese: “ဒဖိုကျောင်းတော်”
- Chinese: “Dàfó Sì”
- Chinese: “大佛寺 (张掖)”
- Chinese: “大佛寺”
- Chinese: “张掖大佛寺”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معبد دافو”
- French: “Temple du Grand Bouddha de Zhangye”
- German: “Tempel des Großen Buddha in Zhangye”
- Hebrew: “מקדש בודהה”
- Indonesian: “Wihara Dafo”
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