The Mahayana Temple is located 2 kilometers south of the Qiqihar Railway Station, which takes about 5 minutes by car. Here I will briefly introduce the situation for your friends. Thekchen Choling, commonly known as the Great Buddha Temple, covers an area of 40,000 square meters, was built in 1939 and completed in early 1943, was built by Kong Yushu, then director of the Five Teachings Moral Institute of Heilongjiang Province. The north side of Thekchen Choling for the Ximan Revolutionary Martyrs' Mausoleum, surrounded by a hundred years of elm trees. During the Cultural Revolution had suffered serious damage, all the monks living in the temple demobilized, restored in 1981 after the resumption of the use of incense, is the largest and most influential Buddhist temple in the northwestern part of Heilongjiang Province, but also the Heilongjiang provincial key cultural relics protection units.

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The Dachen Temple is located in the north to the south, by the gate, the hall, the main hall, the front hall, the back of the hall composition. The gate for the gatehouse type a high and two low, the center for the big door, east and west sides have a small door, usually the main door is not open, but only open the two sides of the small door, only large-scale Buddhist activities or a distant masters to preach before opening the big door. The main hall is surrounded by eight supporting halls, the supporting halls for the arch type building, the roof is paved with colorful glazed tiles. Eight halls and the combination of the gate, was arranged in the shape of gossip; halls and the gate by painting red brick wall connection, elegant and spectacular ring into one, the whole architectural style of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Ye, four or five architectural styles in one, for the world's unique. Thekchen Choling Temple gossip-shaped building is the original intention of the eight halls than the eight Buddha boat, symbolizing the support of the Golden Boat, boarding the voyage of mercy, universal eight sentient beings; but also explains that everything in heaven and earth are not beyond the trigrams, can not be separated from the five elements.

What we see now is the arch building form of Thekchen Choling, the temple has three treasure halls, eight halls, its doors and windows are facing inward, depending on the center of the three halls. Now we see this Guanyin statue, 7.5 meters high, dignified and kind, giving a person a quiet and warm feeling, not only reminiscent of "Yangzhi a drop of real manna, scattered as the mountains and rivers of the earth spring" poem. This Guanyin statue was opened on May 28th of the 1995 lunar calendar together with the Maharishi Temple. This statue of Guanyin is also known as the "open-air Guanyin" because it is located outside.

The next hall is called the Hall of Heavenly Kings, which is dedicated to Maitreya Buddha, flanked by the Four Heavenly Kings, each with a law enforcement weapon in hand and eyes wide open. The back of the treasure hall called Maharishi Temple, is the king of the three halls, the main body of the temple. When we go around the back, we will see another statue of Guanyin, called "upside down Guanyin".

The temple at the back is the Tibetan scripture building, which is dedicated to the King of Earth, with his two disciples, Min Gong and Dao Ming Luohan, on his left and right. The north side of the building is a hall for fasting, and the two sides of the center axis are for squatters, circulation of legal objects, guest rooms, etc.

The hall is dedicated to the King of Earth Store.