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Nanhua Temple 南华寺Nánhuá Sì
National heritage site · Shaoguan, Guangdong
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shaoguan
- Region
- Guangdong
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Nanhua Temple
Founded in the early 6th century as Baolin Temple, Nanhua Temple on the Caoxi stream is where Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, taught from 677, making it the ancestral seat of Southern Chan. Its halls were largely rebuilt from 1934 under the monk Xuyun, and the Sixth Patriarch Hall enshrines a seated figure of Huineng made over his body; the temple also keeps Song-dynasty wooden arhat carvings.
How to get to Nanhua Temple
About 4 km south of Maba in Qujiang district, roughly 25 km by road south of central Shaoguan.
Nearby
- Mount Danxia 丹霞山 40 km
Red sandstone cliffs and flat-topped peaks that gave the 'Danxia' landform its name
Also within 20 km: Caoxi Hot Spring Holiday Resort 曹溪温泉假日度假村 (under 10 km), Maba Man and Shixia Site 马坝人—石峡遗址 (under 10 km), Jinglülun Culture Tourism Town 经律论文化旅游小镇 (20 km).
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