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 and is reputedly the largest reclining Buddha clay statue in China.
- Buddhist temple
- Opening hours: 8:00 AM–6:00 PM
- Description: building in Zhangye, China
- Also known as“Big Buddha Temple”“Dafo Temple”“Dafo Temple, Zhangye”“Zhang Ye Giant Buddha Temple”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zhangye.
Reclined Buddah Temple
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Latitude
38.92996° or 38° 55′ 48″ north
Longitude
100.45468° or 100° 27′ 17″ east
Open location code
8PC2WFH3+XV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
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tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Slovenian—“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”
- Italian: “tempio di Dafo”
- Slovenian: “Tempelj Dafo, Džangje”
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