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Puning Temple 普宁寺Pǔníng Sì
National heritage site · Chengde, Hebei
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chengde
- Region
- Hebei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Puning Temple
A Qing imperial temple built in 1755–59 after the Qing campaign against the Dzungar Mongols, nicknamed the Big Buddha Temple. Its front half follows a Chinese seven-hall plan, while the rear half is a Tibetan-style mandala modelled on Samye Monastery in Tibet, centred on the Mahayana Hall, which holds a gilded wooden Guanyin with a thousand arms and eyes that stands more than 20 m high. It is still a working Buddhist temple, and the adjoining Puyou Temple, built in 1760 as a monastic college and now displaying carved wooden arhat statues, is reached through a door inside it.
How to get to Puning Temple
In the north of Chengde beside the Wulie River, about 2.9 km north of the Chengde Mountain Resort and about 7 km north of central Chengde, and reached by city bus or taxi.
Nearby
- Chengde Mountain Resort 承德避暑山庄 under 10 km
The Qing emperors' summer capital, ringed by temples, some modelled on Tibet's
Also within 20 km: Xumi Fushou Temple 须弥福寿之庙 (under 10 km), Anyuan Temple 安远庙 (under 10 km), Putuo Zongcheng Temple 普陀宗乘之庙 (under 10 km), Pule Temple 普乐寺 (under 10 km), Shuxiang Temple, Chengde 殊像寺 (under 10 km), Puren Temple 溥仁寺 (under 10 km).
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