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兰州白塔寺,旧称白塔禅院,位于兰州黄河北岸白塔山之巅,寺以塔名。相传白塔寺是为纪念当时一位去蒙古谒见成吉思汗而中途病故于兰州的西藏著名高僧而建,后年久失修,只存“白塔古刹遗址”。至明代正统十三年(1448年),镇守太监刘永诚游览此地,“暇览其山,乃形势之地,于是起梵宫,建僧居,永为金城之胜境”。刘公之后,经历岁久,殿宇废弛。明嘉靖十七年(1538年),乡彦郑子敖登临此地,睹之不堪,与其友杜均铠等人号召官民合力出资,重修白塔寺。万历二十年(1592年),白塔寺再次重修,塔院内新增地藏菩萨殿,山下建玉泉阁,“取易地天泰之义也”。至明代末年,院内又增建悬楼三楹,塑文殊、观音和普贤神像。清康熙五十四年(1715年),甘肃巡抚绰奇“登览胜概”,“延访民隐”,见此地具枢纽之势,而其寺中却“廊庑不具,僧徒绝迹”,于是在塔院西侧“增建梵刹,颜曰慈恩寺”,在地藏菩萨殿之西,创建“救苦观音洞天”,又在白塔山东南侧建文昌宫、魁星阁及回廊道等,“为邦人士祈天永命祝祥降福之所”。其后,又在塔院“西南凤岭山建三官殿、云月寺及罗汉殿”。清乾隆年间,文昌宫、魁星阁、观音洞及悬楼三楹等处又进行了维修,寺院规模逐渐发展壮大,演为兰州八景之一。
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Old is Yongzhou Gansu provincial capital Lanzhou. Located in the upper Yellow River, located in the geographical center of China, between latitude 32 ° 31 '~ 42 ° 57', longitude 92 ° 13 '~ 108 ° 46' between. It is the east, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Sichuan controlled South, West Hill Xinjiang, brief Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, is the ancient Silk Road of the key sections of land and gold, and with the Mongolian border, it was like a magnificent gem, set in central China the Loess Plateau, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia plateau, something more than 1,600 kilometers meandering, aspect 453,700 square kilometers, accounting for 4.72% of the total area. Population 26 million (968 million in 1949), Han, Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Yugu, Baoan, Mongolian, Kazak, Tu, Salar, Manchu and other ethnic groups. Among them, the Dongxiang, Yugur, Bonan is a minority of Gansu.