The Tiantai Temple sits on an altar-shaped mountain at the entrance to Wangqu Village in the north of Pingshun County, Shanxi Province.
The small-scale Buddhist temple has a fascinating landscape: to the west is the Zhanghe River and rows upon rows of farmhouses can be seen from the other sides. The temple, which was built during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), contains a stone tablet from the period in the east bearing an illegible inscription. The temple's main hall is square in shape that is three bays wide and deep. The open rooms in the center are comparably large in size to the side rooms, which are about half the size. This was a rarely arrangement among early constructions in China. The temple's architectural style and its embossments reflect the typical construction design of the Tang period.
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