A Tentative Research on Site Selection of Shanxi Buddhism Temple Architecture

摘要

Buddhist architecture which was introduced to China from India had become an important component of traditional Chinese architecture,and the characteristics of different regions had formed after the long-term development.This article starts from Shanxi's location environment,analyzes the considerations of geographical environment of Shanxi temple construction's site selection and the historical regularity of their distribution combining with the site selection factors of traditional Chinese architecture.Thus,the general rules of site selection of Shanxi temples and its particularity of distribution are revealed preliminarily from the viewpoint of space and time.