The Architecturesque Of Contemporary Buddhist Architecture

Religious belief plays an extremely important role in the process of development of human society. Religious places is also being places where people can experience life in religious activities and obtain a higher level of spiritual enjoyment. Buddhism has the most believers than other religions in china.In order to meet the social duty, the contemporary Buddhism has get rid of the superstition and undertaken more social duty. Due to the revival of the Buddhism and the growth of tourism industry, numbers of Buddhist temples were built across the country.. However, most of them excessively emphasized the magnificent and archaistic, which cannot meet the needs of contemporary Buddhism, and even obey the traditional Buddhism doctrines. Basing on the actual situation, this paper takes contemporary Buddhist architecture as the study object, suggests the development of inert on contemporary Buddhist architecture, probes the expression methods of contemporary Buddhist architecture, and finds a path that meeting both connotations of Buddhist culture and modern architectural theory.Firstly, the paper describes the development and characteristics of Buddhism and Buddhist architecture in china. It analyses the new demand of architecture space based on contemporary Buddhism, and suggests the Inconsistency of development between architectural theory and architectural Practice. Secondly, the paper explains the meaning of imagery, artistic conception and realm in Chinese traditional aesthetics. This paper focus on the aesthetic conception of architecturesque through the artistic conception of poetry and painting to show the architecturesque of the architecture. Finally, based on the theoretical analysis, the paper points out the main factors of architecturesque and summarizes the idyllic beauty in contemporary Buddhist architecture. By combining the success stories of the mainland, Taiwan, Japan, using the creation of architecturesque as a starting point, paper summed up the meaning of modern architecture-based Buddhist architectural space and the form of expression of performance。 Buddhist architecture is a special type of cultural building. Study on Buddhist architecture can help the research of Chinese cultural building. The paper attempts to provide a reference for contemporary Buddhist architecture design as well as to inherit the Chinese characteristics culture.