The Ancient Bell Museum in Dazhong Temple

• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: 北京 海淀区 古钟博物馆 大钟寺
• 年，卷（期）: 2003,（6）
• 页码范围: 62-63
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: G265

摘要

<正> THE Ancient Bell Museum in Dazhong Temple is in northern Haidian District, Beijing. Built in 1733 during the Ming Dynasty, the Dazhong (giant bell) Temple was originally named Juesheng Temple and was where emperors presided over rituals praying for rain. The local people preferred to call it the Dazhong Temple because it housed a giant Buddhist bell cast in the Yongle Period (around