A Preliminary Study Of Temple Landscape Cultural Theme Research

In China, Buddhist has two thousand years development, and China owns the largest number of Buddhists in the world. Currently, for the purposes of freeing from insanity and releasing pressure in Buddhist scenic spots, Buddhist has played a significant role in social development. However, nowadays, ancient temples with the same or nothing special landscape design failed to meet the need of modern mass. Culture is the precious resources of temple landscape, and theme is the core soul for temple landscape. The theme of temple landscapes are rooted in the regional history, cultural background, customs of multi-culture, and are created to be the creative landscape design research thinking and infinite creation. Only highlight distinct themes, can characteristic be found and meet the integration of body and spirit.The temple culture theme is the core content in this paper to elaborate the expression of theme. Purpose of thesis is the research, the purification of the theme, and integrated it into the landscape form, to crate innovation and form the unique style, meantime, to seek a relatively ideal theoretical system and the design method is one of the purpose of this thesis. Fa Men Temple as a typical case was used to analyses details and summarize its characteristics and design thinking in the landscape design. Meantime, creatively, this article makes a landscape design and Zen state design on Xi’an CaoTang Temple. The final purpose of paper is expected to arouse the professional visitors’ attention of our modern temple landscape construction for promoting the advance with the times and showing diverse sense of culture, besides this article hopes the spirit of “Fowler Creek around, aware nothing about vicissitudes” would bring spiritual comfort and orientation of goodness.