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Yanshan Temple 岩山寺Yánshān Sì
National heritage site · Xinzhou, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Xinzhou
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yanshan Temple
A small temple on the northern side of Mount Wutai, founded in 1158 in the Jin dynasty and formerly called Lingyan Temple, best known for the Jin murals in its Manjusri Hall. The murals cover more than 90 m² and were painted by the court painter Wang Kui and others, showing the life of the Buddha and other Buddhist stories in settings of palaces, streets and shops. The hall also keeps Jin painted sculptures including a Water-Moon Guanyin, and a local saying sets the temple beside the Yongle Palace: Yongle Palace in the south, Yanshan Temple in the north.
How to get to Yanshan Temple
In Tianyan village, about 35 km east of Fanshi, on the northern foothills of Mount Wutai.
Nearby
- Mount Wutai 五台山 30 km
Temples, a towering white stupa and yellow-tiled roofs below five flat-topped holy peaks - Foguang Temple 佛光寺 50 km
A Tang timber hall of 857 on a quiet hillside, still filled with its Tang clay statues - Hanging Temple 悬空寺 50 km
A wooden temple pinned to a sheer cliff, seemingly propped up on stilts - Yingxian Wooden Pagoda 应县木塔 60 km
A Liao-dynasty timber pagoda of 1056, five storeys outside and nine within
Also within 20 km: Sansheng Temple, Fanshi 三圣寺 (10 km), Hanshan Cultural Park, Fanshi 憨山文化园 (10 km).
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