The momentum of the brilliant Tibetan Jinding

 The Jinding is a kind of architectural concept, also was named in gold-plating roof by people. Jinding not only plays the role of roof adornment, more important is that also plays the role of the house top tile. And the structure of Jinding is similar with the housing top tile, the top surface is a copper-plated gold of the bucket long tile; the eaves became warped; and the four warped eaves is usually four Ngau Tau which are opened mouth. And in the up of the ridge, there are some religious skulls what are installed, such as the treasure house, the aquarius, the Lie deer and so on. And aslo there are some the incising on the eave, for instance, the dharma wheel, the clouding, the truth, the ephraim bead, the flowers and plants, the bells, the eight auspicious symbols ect.

The bells hang on the place where are down the eaves and between the ridge vase. When there is wind blowing, the bells ring spread particularly melodious pleasant-sounding.

 The Jinding is important to China and Tibet travel, and the Jingding in the Tibetan architecture is mainly used for the Tibetan palaces, the temples and the pagodas architecture, especially the high-level adornment of the building. In the world's architectural art garden, only the Tibetan national architecture has this specially great wonders. Decorate the gold tile roof in the Palaces, temples, pagodas ect, its purpose is to let the main building looked outstanding in group of palaces and town house buildings.

And to make its palaces, temples and pagodas buildings appear more gorgeous, imposing. Extrude the palaces and temples in the different position in people’s senses.
 The large Jinding covers an area of more than 200 square meters, about 5 meters high. And the Small about 20 square meters, about two meters high. There are Jingding in the palaces and the temples building, and the area size of the palaces and the temples is an important symbol of the masters who are rich or poor, also have an important symbol of power. Because there are clear qualifications provisions and grade system what are for Jinding building.

The origin of the Jinding

 The Tibetan Jinding has a long history, the origin to basically have two kinds of legend: the first one, it is invented by the Tibetan people own. The two, it comes from ancient India. And now, with the Tibetan social and economic developing and the continuous improvement of the architectural skill, nearly one thousand years of time since the 10th century to the 19th century, there are more than 5000 Buddhism and the Boen religion temples in different size what are built in the Tibetan, which the main halls and important palaces are decorated Jinding about 100 seats temples, and the famous palaces, the pagodas with the Jinding is numerous.

 And in the more than 100 Jingding that are built in the 10-19 centuries Tibetan, which are the largest, the best craft, the most luxurious modelling, and is representative are the Jokhang Temple, the Potala Palace, Sakya, Drepung, Sera and Ganden monasteries, the Norbulingka golden quite chapter, the Xigaze Tashilhunpo, the Anduo pull chapter tashi, Qinghai tear temple, Kang area litany temple, Ganzi temple, Ganzidaji temple, Jitangdansongzanlin temple. Some of the most famouse pagoda Jinding are Tibet AngRenXian town’s Riwujijin tower and the Jiangzi town’s Baiju tower ect.