Shanmen
Important entrance gate at a Chinese Buddhist temple / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gate of Shanmen or Hall of the Shanmen or simply Shanmen (simplified Chinese: 山门殿; traditional Chinese: 山門殿; pinyin: Shānméndiàn)[lower-alpha 1], is the entrance gate of a Buddhist temple.[1] In ancient times, nearly all Buddhist temples had a single Shanmen gate leading into a large hall for the temple.[1] Today, it is observed that most of the surviving Chinese Buddhist temples follow the hall style but have three main gates incorporated into their construction.[1] After successive wars and cultural discontinuity, most Chan Buddhist temples have changed the middle gate into a hall entrance, called "Hall of Shanmen".[1] The Shanmen is the most important gate of a Chan Buddhist sect temple.[1]