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Guo'en Temple, the Sixth Patriarch's Hometown 国恩寺Guó'ēn Sì
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Yunfu, Guangdong
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yunfu
- Region
- Guangdong
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Guo'en Temple, the Sixth Patriarch's Hometown
Founded in 683 on Longshan hill in Liuzu town, Guo'en Temple is where Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, died in 713; it is counted with Guangxiao and Nanhua temples as one of his three ancestral seats, and the Platform Sutra is said to have been compiled here. The present halls date from the Ming to the Republican era, and the surrounding Sixth Patriarch's Hometown resort area also takes in his former home, a lychee tree said to have been planted by him and the Longshan hot spring.
How to get to Guo'en Temple, the Sixth Patriarch's Hometown
In Liuzu town, about 12 km south of Xinxing town; shuttle buses run there from Xinxing South station on the Guangzhou–Zhanjiang high-speed railway.
Nearby
- Kaiping Diaolou and Villages 开平碉楼 40 km
Fortified tower houses rising above rice paddies, built with emigrants' money
Also within 20 km: Tianlu Mountain Resort 天露山 (10 km).
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