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Dule Temple 独乐寺Dúlè Sì
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Tianjin, Tianjin
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Tianjin
- Region
- Tianjin
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Dule Temple
Dule Temple, in the old town of Jizhou, keeps two Liao-dynasty timber buildings from 984, the mountain gate and the Guanyin Pavilion, which are among the oldest surviving wooden buildings in China. The pavilion holds a clay statue of the eleven-headed Guanyin about 16 metres tall, and its walls carry Yuan-dynasty murals. A Qing imperial lodge built in 1753 stands in the east of the compound, and the architectural historian Liang Sicheng's survey of the temple in the 1930s brought it wide attention.
How to get to Dule Temple
On Wuding Street in the centre of Jizhou District, about 0.4 km west-south-west of the Jizhou district government and about 100 km north of Tianjin Railway Station.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Jizhou White Pagoda 蓟州白塔 (under 10 km), Jizhou Karst Cave 蓟州溶洞 (under 10 km), Pingjin Campaign Front Headquarters Site, Mengjialou 平津战役前线司令部旧址 (10 km), Mount Pan (Panshan) 盘山 (10 km), Jinhai Lake 金海湖 (20 km), Guojiagou Village 郭家沟 (20 km).
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