Gudashengci Temple
Rebuilt Buddhist monastery whose Tang-era walls once held over a thousand murals by sixty-plus master painters.
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This guide to Gudashengci Temple in Chengdu follows the sixty to seventy painters who covered its walls with more than a thousand murals after Tang emperor Xuanzong took refuge here during a rebellion and gave the monastery his own calligraphy and land. It traces the compound's rise to ninety-six courtyards and a reputation as the Dunhuang of Sichuan, and the medieval fires and wars that followed. Stand in one of the plain, quiet halls and picture a thousand painted panels once competing for a passerby's eye.
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