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Zhiyuan Temple 祇园寺Qíyuán Sì
National heritage site · Chizhou, Anhui
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chizhou
- Region
- Anhui
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Zhiyuan Temple
One of the four great monasteries of Mount Jiuhua, a few minutes' walk from Huacheng Temple on Jiuhua Street, founded in the Jiajing era of the Ming as a small hermitage and named after the Jetavana grove where the Buddha taught. Most of the present halls are Qing, from the gate hall with its guardian figures and the Heavenly Kings Hall to the double-eaved main hall roofed in yellow glazed tiles, which houses gilded bronze statues of three Buddhas.
How to get to Zhiyuan Temple
On Jiuhua Street on Mount Jiuhua, about 300 m north-east of Huacheng Temple.
Nearby
- Mount Jiuhua 九华山 under 10 km
A Buddhist sacred mountain where 99 temples cling to granite peaks and mist - Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) 黄山 50 km
Granite spires, wind-bent pines and a sea of clouds straight out of an ink painting - Hongcun Village 宏村 60 km
A merchant village planned in the shape of an ox, mirrored in its own pond
Also within 20 km: Huacheng Temple 化城寺 (under 10 km), Baisui Palace 百岁宫 (under 10 km), Shrine of Living Buddha 肉身宝殿 (under 10 km), Dayuan Cultural Park 大愿文化园 (under 10 km), Jiuhua Shenlong Valley 九华神龙谷 (under 10 km), Jiuziyan 九子岩 (under 10 km).
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