Jietai Temple

Jietai Temple
戒台寺
Jietai Temple
Religion
Affiliation	Buddhism
Location
Location	Beijing
Country	China
Location on Beijing.
Geographic coordinates	39°52′08″N 116°04′48″E / 39.86889°N 116.08000°E / 39.86889; 116.08000
Architecture
Style	Chinese architecture
Date established	622

Jietai Temple (Chinese: 戒台寺; pinyin: Jiè Tāi Sì) is a Buddhist temple in Mentougou District in western Beijing, China. It was constructed during the Tang dynasty, with major modifications made during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Like the older Tanzhe Temple nearby along China National Highway 108, Jietai Temple is now a tourist attraction of Beijing.

The temple is located on the mountainside of the Ma'an mountain approximately 25 kilometers from downtown Beijing. It was first built in the Kaihuang period of the Sui dnasty (581–600) and was originally called the Huiju Temple (Wisdom Accumulation Temple).

The ordination altar in Jietai Temple is known as one of the three largest ordination altars in China together with the other two in Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian and Zhaoqing Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. As it has largest construction scale, so it is also called the "First Altar in the World" (天下第一坛).^[1]