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Lingguang Temple, Meizhou 灵光寺Língguāng Sì
4A scenic area · Meizhou, Guangdong
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Meizhou
- Region
- Guangdong
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Lingguang Temple, Meizhou
A Chan Buddhist monastery on Yinna Mountain, founded in the Xiantong era of the Tang dynasty (860–874) by the monk Pan Liaoquan as Shengshou Temple and renamed Lingguang Temple in 1385. Two ancient cypresses before the gate, one living and one long dead, are known as the 'trees of life and death', and the bell tower keeps a bronze bell cast in 1485. The forested mountain around it makes a cool walk in summer.
How to get to Lingguang Temple, Meizhou
On the slopes of Yinna Mountain in Yinna village, Yanyang town, about 40 km by road east of Meizhou, roughly 50 minutes by car.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Yanshan Lake International Garden Resort 雁山湖 (under 10 km), Yannanfei Tea Field 雁南飞茶田 (under 10 km), Ye Jianying Memorial Park 叶剑英纪念园 (under 10 km), Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Sanhe 三河中山纪念堂 (20 km), Sanheba Battle Memorial Park 三河坝战役纪念园 (20 km).
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