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Dongsheng Monastery

Dongsheng Monastery was a Buddhist temple founded by Northern Wei.

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Dongsheng Monastery was a Buddhist monastery built in 462 CE by Northern Wei, who supplanted Taoism as the state religion in favor of the teachings of Buddha. The monastery recruited several monks, who spread the Buddhist faith and healed injured people. It was destroyed by the Huns during the Siege of Dongsheng and all of the monks massacred.

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