Lintong Museum
★★★★
Museums
East of Litong, Lintong District, Xi'an 710600, China
Description
Xi'an Lintong Museum is a topographical history museum, located on the east side of Huaqing Palace at the foot of Lishan Mountain. The museum houses the bronze wares of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the relics of King Wu's defeat of Zhou, as well as the golden coffins and silver statues unearthed from the ruins of Qingshan Temple in Tang Dynasty, and the relics of Sakyamuni (belonging to extremely precious Buddhist cultural relics). These cultural relics have been listed as Special cultural relics. The museum houses the relics of Sakyamuni, which are the remains of the Buddha, also known as the spiritual bones of the Buddha. Relics for broken bones, which are not broken when struck or burned, are the supreme and extremely precious worship objects in Buddhism. But now the Relic Hall is closed to the public.