Mount Baohua and Longchang Temple 宝华山隆昌寺Bǎohuá Shān Lóngchāng Sì

About Mount Baohua and Longchang Temple

Mount Baohua, a forested hill just east of Nanjing, is a national forest park whose main sight is Longchang Temple, founded in 502 and regarded as the ancestral seat of the Vinaya (monastic discipline) school of Chinese Buddhism. Its protected buildings are a copper hall and two brick 'beamless' halls built in 1605, and the temple also keeps its ordination platform and ginkgo trees about 400 years old.

How to get to Mount Baohua and Longchang Temple

At Baohua town, about 25 km east of Nanjing's Zhongshan Gate by road (around 40 minutes).

Nearby

• Purple Mountain & Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum 南京钟山风景区 20 km
  A forested mountain on Nanjing's edge, crowned by a blue-roofed hilltop tomb
• Fuzimiao and the Qinhuai River 夫子庙—秦淮风光带 30 km
  Nanjing's lantern-lit Confucius Temple quarter, beside painted boats on the Qinhuai
• City Wall of Nanjing 南京城墙 30 km
  The Ming capital's brick ramparts, anchored by the vast fortress of Zhonghua Gate
• Slender West Lake 瘦西湖 40 km
  A ribbon of willow-fringed water lined with the pavilions of Qing salt merchants

Also within 20 km: Tangshan Zhiqing Lake Resort 汤山紫清湖 (under 10 km), Nanjing Man Site (Tangshan Ape-Man Cave) 南京古猿人洞 (under 10 km), Happy Valley Nanjing 南京欢乐谷 (under 10 km), Yangshan Quarry 阳山碑材 (10 km), Qixia Mountain & Qixia Temple 栖霞山·栖霞寺 (10 km), Southern Dynasty Tomb Sculptures, Nanjing 南京南朝陵墓石刻 (20 km).

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