The Famen Temple was situated in the Famen Town, 10 kilometers north of the Fufeng County, 120 kilometers west of the Xi'an City, 96 kilometers east of Baoji City. It's the famous temple as dagoba for the fingerbone of Sakyamuni in the ancient times in China.
Famen means the door one must enter once he wants to cultivate himself according to Buddhism. The Famen Temple was first built during East Han Dynasty. The Famen Temple Tower, also named 'The Tower of the Real Body' (zhen shen bao ta), gained its name from burying one section of Sakyamuni's fingerbone.
Sakyamuni Buddha died in 485 BC and the finger was brought to China from India some 200 years later, historical documents show.
A Tang Dynasty emperor ordered it to be sealed under the pagoda in the Famen Temple in Xian in 874 AD.
The finger was not seen in public until 1986, when the provincial government cleared the rubble of the temple's pagoda after heavy rains caused it to collapse in 1981.
The fingerbone, believed by experts to be the only one remainedof its kind in the world, was rediscovered at the Famen Temple in Shaanxi Province in 1987 after being sealed and stored in a underground palace for more than 1,000 years, and has long been worshipped by Buddhists.
