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Yangqi Shan and Putong Temple Pagodas 杨岐山Yángqí Shān
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Pingxiang, Jiangxi
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Pingxiang
- Region
- Jiangxi
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Yangqi Shan and Putong Temple Pagodas
Yangqi Shan is a wooded karst mountain north of Pingxiang, regarded as the ancestral home of the Yangqi school of Chan (Zen) Buddhism. Putong Temple, founded in 713 and renamed in the 1040s when the monk Fanghui began the school there, has two small Tang pagodas in its grounds, one octagonal (2.35 m) and one shaped like a square pavilion, which are a national heritage unit. The scenic area also includes the Nielong Cave, a lit karst cave used as a summer retreat, and a small geology museum.
How to get to Yangqi Shan and Putong Temple Pagodas
At Putong Temple in Yangqi township, about 11 km east-south-east of Shangli town and about 24 km north of Pingxiang.
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