The following is a non-exhaustive list of
Buddhist
Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...
temple
A temple (from the Latin ) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Christianity (whose temples are typically called churches), Hinduism (whose temples ...
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monasteries
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...
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pagoda
A pagoda is an Asian tiered tower with multiple eaves common to Nepal, India, China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most often Buddhist but sometimes Taoist, ...
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grottoes,
archaeological site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology a ...
s and colossal
statues in
China.
Buddhist temples
Anhui
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Mount Jiuhua
Mount Jiuhua () located in Chizhou, Anhui Province in China is an important Buddhist site and natural scenic spot. It is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, one of the first batch of 5A level scenic spots in China, one of the fi ...
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Baisui Palace
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Ganlu Temple (Mount Jiuhua)
Ganlu Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Jiuhua, in Qingyang County, Anhui, China.
Name
The name of "Ganlu" derives from ''Lotus Sutra''.
History
The temple was originally built by an exceptional Chan master Dong'an () in 1667, aft ...
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Huacheng Temple
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Shrine of Living Buddha
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Tiantai Temple (Mount Jiuhua)
Tiantai Temple (), also known as the Temple of Ksitigarbha (), is the highest Buddhist temple located on Mount Jiuhua, in Qingyang County, Anhui, China. It was first built in the Tang dynasty (618–907), and went through many changes and repai ...
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Zhantalin
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Zhiyuan Temple (Mount Jiuhua)
Zhiyuan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Jiuhua, in Qingyang County, Anhui, China. Alongside Ganlu Temple, Baisui Palace and Dongyan Chan Temple are honoured as the "Four Buddhist Temple on Mount Jiuhua".
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Baisuigong Temple
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Qiyuansi Temple
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Roushen Temple
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Tianchi Temple
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Guangji Temple (Wuhu)
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Langya Temple
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Mingjiao Temple (Anhui)
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Sanzu Temple
Sanzu Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Tianzhu, in Qianshan, Anhui, China. Originally built in 505 in the Northern and Southern dynasties (420–589), the temple has a history of over 1550 years, but it was destroyed and rebu ...
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Shangchan Temple
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Yingjiang Temple
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Zhenfeng Pagoda
Beijing
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Badachu
The Badachu (; also known as "Badachu Park"), is a complex of monasteries located on the outskirts of urban Beijing, which means "Eight Great Sites" that refers to the eight Buddhist temples and nunneries scattered across the Cuiwei, Pingpo, and ...
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Bailin Temple (Beijing)
The Bailin Temple (Chinese language, Chinese: 柏林寺; pinyin: Bǎilín Sì), also known as the "Monastery of the Cypress Grove", is a 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist temple and monastery located in Beijing, China.
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Imperial era
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Baipu Temple
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Big Bell Temple
The Big Bell Temple, or Da Zhong Temple (), originally known as Jue Sheng Temple (), is a Buddhist temple located on North 3rd Road in Beijing, China.
The Big Bell Temple was built in 1733 during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing dy ...
(or Juesheng Temple)
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Cheng'en Temple
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Cloud Platform at Juyongguan
The Cloud Platform at Juyongguan () is a mid-14th-century architectural feature situated in the Guangou Valley at the Juyongguan Pass of the Great Wall of China, in the Changping District of Beijing Municipality, about northwest of central Bei ...
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Dahui Temple
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Dajue Temple
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Dule Temple
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Fahai Temple
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Fayuan Temple
The Fayuan Temple (), situated in the southwest quarter of central Beijing, is one of the city's oldest and most renowned Buddhist temples.
History
The Fayuan Temple, originally named the Minzhong Temple, was first built in 645 during the T ...
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Guanghua Temple (Beijing)
Guanghua Temple () is a Buddhist temple located at 31 Ya'er Hutong, north of Shichahai in the Xicheng District of Beijing, China. Founded during the Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Gre ...
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Guangji Temple (Beijing)
The Guangji Temple () is a Buddhist temple located at inner Fuchengmen Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, China. It is also the headquarters of the Buddhist Association of China, founded by Master Xuyun, who is the father of modern Buddhism and hai ...
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Hongluo Temple
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Jietai Temple
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Lingguang Temple (Beijing)
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Miaoying Temple
The Miaoying Temple (), also known as the "White Stupa Temple" (), is a Chinese Buddhist temple on the north side of Fuchengmennei Street in the Xicheng District of Beijing. The temple was a monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and is ...
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Pagoda of Tianning Temple
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Tanzhe Temple
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Temple of Azure Clouds
The Temple of Azure Clouds (), or Biyun Temple, is a Buddhist temple located in the eastern part of the Western Hills, just outside the north gate of Fragrant Hills (Xiangshan) Park, in Haidian District, Beijing, China, approximately 20  ...
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Tianning Temple (Beijing)
The Tianning Temple () is a Buddhist temple complex located in Xicheng District of Beijing, in northern China.
The temple contains the 12th-century Pagoda of Tianning Temple. The 8 sided pagoda is of the Liao Dynasty, built from around 1100 to ...
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Tongjiao Temple
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Wanshou Temple
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Wofo Temple
Wofo Temple () is a Buddhist temple located near the Beijing Botanical Garden from the center of Beijing. The temple is the location of a recumbent Buddha sculpture, created in 1321.
History
The temple was first built in the 7th century and kn ...
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Xifeng Temple
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Xihuang Temple
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Yonghe Temple
The Yonghe Temple (, "Palace of Peace and Harmony"), also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beij ...
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Yunju Temple
Yunju Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Fangshan District, southwest of Beijing and contains the world's largest collection of stone Buddhist sutra steles in the world. Yunju Temple also contains one of only two extant woodblocks for ...
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Zhenjue Temple
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Zhihua Temple
The Zhihua Temple ( 智 化 寺; pinyin: Zhìhuà Sì; lit. "Temple of Wisdom Attained") is a Ming dynasty-era Buddhist temple in Beijing, China. It is located in the Lumicang (禄米仓) ''hutong'', in the Chaoyangmen area of Dongcheng District, ...
Chongqing
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Ciyun Temple (Chongqing)
Ciyun Temple () is a Buddhist temple located at the foot of Mount Lion () in Nan'an District, Chongqing.
History
The original temple dates back to the Tang dynasty (618–907). The modern temple was founded in 1757 during the reign of Qianlon ...
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Luohan Temple (Chongqing)
Luohan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Yuzhong District, Chongqing. It is the site of the Buddhist Association of Chongqing. The temple was used for Ning Hao's black comedy film '' Crazy Stone''.
History
Song dynasty
This temple wa ...
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Shuanggui Temple
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Tongliang Iron Buddha Temple
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Chaoyang North Tower
Fujian
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Chengtian Temple (Quanzhou)
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Chongfu Temple (Quanzhou)
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Chongsheng Temple (Fujian)
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Cishou Temple
Cishou Temple (), also known as Nangshan Temple or Temple of Mount Nang (), is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Nang (), in Putian, Fujian, China.
History Tang dynasty
Cishou Temple was built by an eminent Buddhist monk Miaoying () in 876, in t ...
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Dizang Temple (Fuzhou)
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Guanghua Temple (Putian)
The Guanghua Temple (), also known as the South Mountain Guanghua Temple (), is a Buddhist temple located at the foot of Mount Phoenix (), about south of Putian City, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China.
Built in the penultimate year o ...
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Guangxiao Temple (Putian)
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Hualin Temple (Fuzhou)
Hualin Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Gulou District, Fuzhou, Fujian, China. After the introduction of Chan Buddhism from China to Japan in the Song dynasty (960–1279), the architectural style of the Song dynasty had a profo ...
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Huayan Temple (Ningde)
Huayan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Zhiti (), in Jiaocheng District of Ningde, Fujian, China. It is the ashram of the Bodhisattva Ratnakūta (天冠菩薩).
History
The temple was built in 971 by an exceptional Buddhist monk ...
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Jinshan Temple (Fujian)
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Kaiyuan Temple (Quanzhou)
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Linyang Temple
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Longshan Temple (Jinjiang)
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Nanshan Temple
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Pagoda of Cishou Temple
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South Putuo Temple
South Putuo or Nanputuo () is a famous Buddhist temple founded in the Tang dynasty in the Chinese city of Xiamen. It is so named because it is south of the Buddhist holy site Mount Putuo in Zhejiang Province.
Location
The South Putuo Temple i ...
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Wanfu Temple
Wanfu Temple () is a Buddhist temple on Mount Huangbo in Fuqing, Fujian, China. It is famous as the original temple of Yinyuan Longqi, the temple's 33rd abbot and a Chan master. He later travelled to Japan with his disciple Muyan to found the J ...
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Xichan Temple (Fujian)
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Yongquan Temple (Fuzhou)
Yongquan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Gushan Mountain or Mount Gu (Drum Mountain in English), in Jin'an District of Fuzhou, Fujian. It was first built in 783 during the Tang dynasty (618–907), and went through many changes an ...
Gansu
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Dafo Temple (Zhangye)
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Labrang Monastery
Labrang Monastery (; Chinese: Lāboléng Sì, 拉卜楞寺) is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its formal name is ''Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling'' ().
Labrang is located in Xiah ...
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Ta'er Temple (Suoyang City)
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White Horse Pagoda, Dunhuang
Guangdong
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Guangxiao Temple (Guangzhou)
Guangxiao Temple () is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Guangzhou, the capital of China's Guangdong Province. As the special geographical position, Guangxiao Temple often acted as a stopover point for Asian missionary monks in the past. I ...
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Hoi Tong Monastery
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Kaiyuan Temple (Chaozhou)
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Lingshan Temple (Shantou)
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Nanhua Temple
Nanhua Temple () is a Buddhist monastery of the Chan Buddhism, one of Five Great Schools of Buddhism where Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, once lived and taught. It is located in the town of Maba (), Qujiang District, southeast ...
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Qingyun Temple (Guangdong)
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Temple of the Six Banyan Trees
The Temple of the Six Banyan Trees or Liurong Temple is a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou, China, originally built in AD 537.
The temple's proximity to foreign consulates in Guangzhou has made it a regular destination for families partici ...
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Yunmen Temple (Guangdong)
Guizhou
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Hongfu Temple (Guiyang)
Hongfu Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Qianling, in Yunyan District of Guiyang, Guizhou, China. Hongfu Temple and Qixia Temple are collectively known as the "Two Attractions in Guiyang".
Name
"Hongfu" () in Chinese literally means ...
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Qianming Temple
Hainan
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Nanshan Temple (Sanya)
Hebei
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Bailin Temple
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Geyuan Temple
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Iron Buddha Temple (Dongguang)
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Kaishan Temple
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Liaodi Pagoda
The Liaodi Pagoda () of Kaiyuan Monastery, Dingzhou, Hebei Province, China is the tallest existing pre-modern Chinese pagoda and tallest brick pagoda in the world, built in the 11th century during the Song dynasty (960–1279). The pagoda stands a ...
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Lingxiao Pagoda
The Lingxiao Pagoda () is a Chinese pagoda west of the Xinglong Temple in Zhengding, Hebei Province, China.
History
The original pagoda that stood at the same site was dubbed the Wooden Pagoda, and was built in 860 AD during the Tang dynasty (618 ...
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Linji Temple
Linji Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Zhengding Town of Zhengding County, Hebei, China. In the mid-Tang dynasty (618–907), Linji Yixuan founded the Linji school, which eventually became one of the five major schools of Buddhism in ...
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Longxing Monastery
The Longxing Monastery or Longxing Temple () is an ancient Buddhist monastery located in the town of Zhengding in Hebei Province, China, approximately north of the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang. It has been referred to as the ''"Best Temp ...
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Pagoda of Bailin Temple
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Pagoda of Tiangong Temple
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Puning Temple (Hebei)
The Puning Temple (), commonly called the Big Buddha Temple, is a Buddhist temple complex in Chengde, Hebei province, China. It was built in 1755 during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing dynasty. It is near the Chengde Mountain Resort ...
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Putuo Zongcheng Temple
The Putuo Zongcheng Temple (, ) of Chengde, Hebei province, China is a Qing dynasty era Buddhist temple complex built between 1767 and 1771,Foret, 155. during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1735–1796). It is located near the Chengde Mountai ...
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Xumi Pagoda
The Xumi Pagoda () or Sumeru Pagoda, also known as Summer Pagoda is a Chinese pagoda of the Buddhist Kaiyuan Monastery west of Zhengding, Hebei province, China. This square-base stone and brick pagoda was built in the year 636 AD during the reign ...
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Guanghui Temple Huatai Pagoda
Henan
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Daxingguo Temple
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Fawang Temple
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Fragrant Mountain Temple at
Longmen Grottoes
The Longmen Grottoes () or Longmen Caves are some of the finest examples of Buddhist art#China, Chinese Buddhist art. Housing tens of thousands of statues of Shakyamuni Buddha and his disciples, they are located south of present-day Luoyang i ...
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Iron Pagoda
The Iron Pagoda () of Youguo Temple (), Kaifeng City, Henan province, is a Buddhist Chinese pagoda built in 1049 during the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China. The pagoda is so-named not because it is made of iron, but because its color resemble ...
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Jidu Temple
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Jinshan Temple (Hebi)
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Pagoda Forest at Shaolin Temple
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Qizu Pagoda
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Shaolin Monastery
Shaolin Monastery (少林寺 ''Shàolínsì''), also known as Shaolin Temple, is a renowned monastic institution recognized as the birthplace of Chan Buddhism and the cradle of Shaolin Kung Fu. It is located at the foot of Wuru Peak of the So ...
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Songyue Pagoda
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White Horse Temple
White Horse Temple () is a Buddhist temple in Luoyang, Henan that, according to tradition, is the first Buddhist temple in China, having been first established in 68 AD under the patronage of Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han dynasty.
The site is ...
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Xiangyan Temple
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Youguo Temple
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
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Five Pagoda Temple (Hohhot)
The Five Pagoda Temple (; Mongolian: Tabun suburγan-u süm-e), also known as the "Precious Pagoda of the Buddhist Relics of the Diamond Throne" (), is a Buddhist temple in the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia in north-west China. It is locat ...
Hubei
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Guiyuan Temple
Guiyuan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Cuiwei Road in Hanyang District of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
It was built in the 15th year of Shunzhi period (1658) of the Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, ...
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Baotong Temple
Baotong Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on the south hillside of Mount Hong, in Wuchang District of Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is one of the "Four Buddhist Temples" in Wuhan.
History
Northern and Southern dynasties
The temple was first ...
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Iron Buddha Temple (Xiangfan)
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Wuying Pagoda
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Wuzu Temple
Hunan
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Baiyun Temple (Ningxiang)
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Fuyan Temple
Fuyan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Heng, in Nanyue District of Hengyang, Hunan, China. It has been designated as a National Key Buddhist Temple in Han Chinese Area in 1983.
History
The temple was first construction in 567 wit ...
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Grand Temple of Mount Heng
The Grand Temple of Mount Heng, or Grand Temple of South Mountain () is located at the foot of Mount Heng, and on the north of ancient town of Mount Heng in Hengshan County of Hunan, China. It is the largest temple on Mount Heng. It is a major ...
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Guangji Temple (Hunan)
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Kaifu Temple
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Lingsheng Temple
Luohou Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Dongyang Town of Liuyang, Hunan, China. It is adjacent to the Lens Technology.
History
Lingsheng Temple was first established in 693, the 2nd year of Changshou period, at the dawn of Zhou dynasty ...
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Lushan Temple
Lushan Temple (), is a Buddhist temple at Yuelu Mountain, Changsha, Hunan, China. It includes the Entrance, Hall of Great Heroes, Zazen room, and dining room, etc.
History
Jin dynasty
In 268, in the fourth year of the Taishi era of Emperor Wu of ...
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Miyin Temple
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Nantai Temple
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Puguang Temple (Zhangjiajie)
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Puji Temple (Ningxiang)
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Shangfeng Temple
Shangfeng Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on the top of Mount Heng, in Nanyue District of Hengyang, Hunan, China. It was inscribed to the National Key Buddhist Temples in Han Chinese Area's list in 1983.
History
During the Eastern Han dyn ...
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Yunmen Temple (Hunan)
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Zhaoshan Temple
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Zhusheng Temple (Hunan)
Zhusheng Temple () is a Buddhist temple located at the foot of Mount Heng (Hunan), Mount Heng, in Nanyue District of Hengyang, Hunan, China. It was inscribed to the National Key Buddhist Temples in Han Chinese Area's list in 1983.
History
Zhushen ...
Hong Kong
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Cham Shan Monastery
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Chi Lin Nunnery
Chi Lin Nunnery () is a large Buddhist temple complex located in Diamond Hill, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1934 as a retreat for Buddhist nuns and was rebuilt in the 1998 following the traditional Tang Dynasty architecture. The temple ...
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Miu Fat Buddhist Monastery
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Po Lin Monastery
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Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery
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Tsing Shan Monastery
The Tsing Shan Monastery aka. Castle Peak Monastery is situated at the foot of Castle Peak, near Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. Parts of the Monastery are listed as Grade I historic buildings, others are listed as Grade II historic buildings.Antiqui ...
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Tsz Shan Monastery
Tsz Shan Monastery () is a large Buddhist temple located in Tung Tsz, Tai Po District, Hong Kong. Within the monastery, there is a 76-meter tall statue of ''Rúyìlún Guānyīn'' (如意輪觀音), also known as Cintamanicakra, a manifestation o ...
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Tung Lin Kok Yuen
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Tung Po Tor Monastery
Jiangsu
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Chongshan Temple (Jiangsu)
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Daming Temple
Daming Temple () is a temple located at the middle peak of Shugang Mountain, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China. This temple is known for a famous monk, Jianzhen, who studied the sutras and initiated people into monkhood here in 742 AD before he left for Jap ...
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Dinghui Temple
Dinghui Temple () was built in 591 AD during the Sui dynasty. According to the ''Xugao Sengzhuan'', written by a monk called Daoxuan during the Tang dynasty, the emperor Yang of Sui held a meeting involving thousands of monks in Yangzhou. During ...
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Gaomin Temple
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Guangjiao Temple (Nantong)
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Hanshan Temple
Hanshan Temple (), is a Buddhist temple and monastery in Gusu District of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is located at the town of Fengqiao (lit. Maple Bridge), about west of Suzhou's old city.
Traditionally, Hanshan Temple is believed to ...
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Huiji Temple (Nanjing)
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Huqiu Tower
The Tiger Hill Pagoda, more officially the Yunyan Pagoda (; Suzhou Wu: Yuin nge zy thaeh, or ; Suzhou Wu: Hou chieu thaeh, ), also sometimes translated as Huqiu Tower, is a Chinese pagoda situated on Tiger Hill in Suzhou city, Jiangsu Provinc ...
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Jiming Temple
The Jiming Temple () is a renowned Buddhist temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. One of the oldest temples in Nanjing, it is located in the Xuanwu District near Xuanwu Lake.Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet Jiangsu: Chapter from China Travel Guide'. Lo ...
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Jinshan Temple (Zhenjiang)
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Linggu Temple
Linggu Temple () is a famous Buddhist temple in Nanjing. It is now surrounded by a large park.
History
The temple was first built in 515 during the Liang dynasty (502-557). It used to lie at the northeast foot of the Purple Mountain, i.e. ...
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Lingyanshan Temple
Lingyanshan Temple () is a prominent Buddhist temple with a 1600-year history in Suzhou, was the palace for Xishi in BC494 located at the peak of Lingyan Hill.
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Longchang Temple
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Qingliang Temple (Changzhou)
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Qixia Temple
Qixia Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Qixia Mountain in the suburban Qixia District of Nanjing, Jiangsu, northeast of downtown Nanjing. It is one of Nanjing's most important Buddhist monasteries. The temple is the cradle of East Asia ...
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Tianning Temple (Changzhou) (天宁宝塔) in
Changzhou
Changzhou ( Changzhounese: ''Zaon Tsei'', ) is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling and Jinling. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provin ...
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Tiger Hill Pagoda
The Tiger Hill Pagoda, more officially the Yunyan Pagoda (; Suzhou Wu: Yuin nge zy thaeh, or ; Suzhou Wu: Hou chieu thaeh, ), also sometimes translated as Huqiu Tower, is a Chinese pagoda situated on Tiger Hill in Suzhou city, Jiangsu Provin ...
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Xingfu Temple (Changshu)
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Xiyuan Temple
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Yunyan Temple (Suzhou)
Jiangxi
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Donglin Temple
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Jingju Temple (Ji'an)
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Nengren Temple (Jiujiang)
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Puning Temple (Jiangxi)
Puning Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Wu'an in Yushan County, Jiangxi, China.
History
The temple was first established between 668 and 670, under the Tang dynasty (618–907). It was converted from the private residence donat ...
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Zhenru Temple (Jiangxi)
The Zhenru Chan Temple () is a Chan Buddhist temple located on the southwestern hillside of Mount Yunju in Yongxiu County, Jiangxi, China. Zhenru Chan Temple is the cradle of Caodong school in Chinese Buddhism. The temple has been burned down an ...
Jilin
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Banruo Temple (Changchun)
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Dizang Temple (Changchun)
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Guanyin Ancient Temple
Liaoning
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Banruo Temple (Shenyang)
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Ci'en Temple (Liaoning)
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Fengguo Temple
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Guangji Temple (Jinzhou)
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Zhiyuan Temple (Panjin)
Macau
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Kun Iam Temple
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Ningxia
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Baisigou Square Pagoda
Baisigou Square Pagoda (Chinese ) was a brick pagoda in Helan County, Ningxia, China, built during the early years of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227), ''circa'' 1075–1076. It is situated in an isolated location about 10 km into the B ...
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Haibao Pagoda Temple
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Hongfo Pagoda
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One Hundred and Eight Stupas
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Pagoda of Chengtian Temple
The Pagoda of Chengtian Temple (), meaning 'Bearing Heaven Pagoda', is an eleven-storeyed brick pagoda located on the site of a previous Buddhist temple in Yinchuan city, Ningxia, China. The pagoda was originally built during the Western Xia, bu ...
Shaanxi
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Caotang Temple
Caotang Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on the north hillside of Mount Guifeng, in Huyi District of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
In the Later Qin (384–417), Kumārajīva resided in Caotang Temple, where he translated ''Madhyamika-sastra'' ...
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Daci'en Temple
Daci'en Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Yanta District, Xi'an, Shaanxi. The temple is the cradle of East Asian Yogācāra in China. It is notable for the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. The pagoda was originally built by an accomplished mo ...
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Daxingshan Temple
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Famen Temple
Famen Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Famen town (), Fufeng County, 120 kilometers west of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It was widely regarded as the "ancestor of pagoda temples in Guanzhong".
History
Han dynasty
One theory, supported b ...
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Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda or Big Wild Goose Pagoda (, literally "big swan goose pagoda"), is a monumental Buddhist pagoda located in southern Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It was built in 648/649(?) during the Tang dynasty and originally had five storie ...
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Guangren Temple
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Jianfu Temple
Jianfu Temple () is a Chinese Buddhist temple located at West Youyi Rd. outside the south gate of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. It hosts the famous Small Wild Goose Pagoda.
History
Jianfu Temple was originally the residence of Emperor Zhongzo ...
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Jingye Temple
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Qinglong Temple (Xi'an)
Qinglong Temple (), also known as Shifo Temple (), is a Buddhist temple located in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. In the mid-Tang dynasty (618–907), Huiguo taught Vajrayana at the temple, his Japanese disciple Kūkai introduced it to Japan, since ...
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Shuilu'an Temple
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Small Wild Goose Pagoda
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda, sometimes Little Wild Goose Pagoda (), is one of two significant pagodas in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang'an. The other notable pagoda is the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, origin ...
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Wolong Temple
Wolong Temple ( Chinese: 卧龙寺) is located on Baishulin St., Beilin District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province of China. According to the stele in the temple, it was built during Lingdi's reign (AD 168–189), Han dynasty, more than 1,800 years ago. It ...
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Xiangji Temple (Shaanxi)
Xiangji Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Chang'an District of Xi'an, Shaanxi. The temple is regarded as the cradle of Pure Land Buddhism.
Name
The name of the temple is cited from the ''Vimalakirti Sutra''.
History Tang dynasty
In 681, ...
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Xingjiao Temple
The Xingjiao Temple () is located in Shaoling Yuan, Chang'an District of Xi'an. The five-storied Buddhist relic pagoda, preserving the relics of Xuanzang, is inside the temple, along with the pagodas of his disciples, Kuiji and Yuance.
Xingjiao ...
Shandong
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Four-gates pagoda
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Lingyan Temple (Jinan)
Lingyan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Changqing District, Jinan, Shandong Province, China, about north of the city of Tai'an.Valder, 118. The temple grounds are situated in a valley on the western edge of the Taishan range. The Lin ...
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Pizhi Pagoda
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Xingguo Temple (Jinan)
Xingguo Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Zhangqiu District of Jinan, Shandong.
History
Xingguo Temple was originally built in the Kaihuang period (581–600) of Sui dynasty (581–618) with the name of "Thousand Buddha Temple" () ...
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Zhanshan Temple (Shandong)
Shanghai
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Baoshan Temple
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Chenxiang Pavilion
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Donglin Temple (Shanghai)
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Hongfu Temple (Shanghai)
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Jade Buddha Temple
The Jade Buddha Temple (, literally ''Jade Buddha Chan Temple'') is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Myanmar by sea. These were a sitting Buddha (1.95 meters tall, 3 ...
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Jing'an Temple
Jing'an Temple () is an esoteric Tangmi Buddhist temple on the West Nanjing Road in Shanghai. Jing'an District, where it is located, is named after the temple.
History
The original temple was first built in 247 AD in the Wu Kingdom during ...
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Longhua Temple
The Longhua Temple (, alternatively Lunghwa Temple; literally ''"Dragon Flower Temple''") is a Buddhist temple dedicated to the Maitreya Buddha in Shanghai. Although most of the present day buildings date from later reconstructions, the temple ...
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Yuanming Jiangtang
Yuanming Jiangtang () is a Buddhist temple located in the Jing'an District of Shanghai.
History
Yuanming Jiangtang was built by first Venerable Master of the Buddhist Association of China Yuan Ying in 1934, where he taught Pure Land Buddhism for ...
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Zhenru Temple (Shanghai)
Shanxi
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Mount Wutai
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Bishan Temple
The Bishan Temple or Guangji Maopeng ( or ) is a Buddhist temple located in Taihuai, Taihuai Town of Wutai County, Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
History
In the ''Qingliangshan Annals'', a poem described Bishan Temple as "".
Baiyun Temple was first est ...
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Foguang Temple
Foguang Temple () is a Buddhist temple located five kilometres from Doucun, Wutai County, Shanxi Province of China. The major hall of the temple is the Great East Hall, built in 857 AD, during the Tang Dynasty (618–907). According to archit ...
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Great White Pagoda
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Guangji Temple (Mount Wutai)
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Guangzong Temple (Mount Wutai)
Guangzong Temple (), more commonly known as the Tongwadian (), is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Wutai, in Taihuai Town of Wutai County, Shanxi, China.
History
According to ''Records of Qingliang Mountain'' (), the temple was first construct ...
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Guanhai Temple
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Gufo Temple
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Jile Temple
Jile Temple () of Harbin, China, is the biggest Buddhist building complex in Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). ...
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Jinge Temple
Jinge Temple (), or "Golden Pavilion Temple", is a Buddhist temple in Shanxi province, China.
The temple is located on Mount Wutai, north of the South Peak and south of the Central Peak, about 15 kilometres from Taihuai town. It is at an altit ...
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Longhua Temple
The Longhua Temple (, alternatively Lunghwa Temple; literally ''"Dragon Flower Temple''") is a Buddhist temple dedicated to the Maitreya Buddha in Shanghai. Although most of the present day buildings date from later reconstructions, the temple ...
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Luomuhou Temple
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Mimi Temple Mimi Temple () is located on Mimi Hill (秘密岩), Weiping Mountain, 38 kilometers southwest of Taihuai Town in Mount Wutai, Shanxi, China. It is named after the hill. Another name for the hill is Mimo (秘魔岩). So an alternative name for th ...
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Nanchan Temple
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Nanshan Temple (Mount Wutai)
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Puhua Temple
The Puhua Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Taihuai Town of Wutai County, Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
History
The time for the establishment of the Puhua Temple has been unable to be verified. It is also called "Temple of Jade Emperor" ( ...
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Pusading
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Qixian Temple (Mount Wutai)
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Shifang Temple
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Shouning Temple
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Shuxiang Temple
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Tayuan Temple
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Wanfo Ge
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Wenshu Temple (Mount Wutai)
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Xiantong Temple
The Xiantong Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Taihuai Town of Wutai County, Shanxi, China. The temple covers a total area of about , it preserves the basic architectural pattern of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912). The tem ...
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Yanshan Temple
Yanshan Temple () is a preserved location of national historical and cultural relics. It used to be named Lingyan Temple (灵岩寺). It is located in Tianyan Village of north side of Mount Wutai, Yukou, south of Fanshi County, Shanxi Province of ...
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Youguo Temple
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Zhanshan Temple (Mount Wutai)
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Zhenrong Temple
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Zhulin Temple
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Zunsheng Temple
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Chongshan Temple (Shanxi)
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Guangji Temple (Xinzhou)
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Huayan Temple (Datong)
Huayan Temple or Huayan Monastery () is a Buddhist temple located in Datong, Shanxi, China.
Huayan Temple has been burned down and rebuilt several times. The Mahavira Hall and Buddhist Texts Library still preserve the architectural style of ...
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Iron Buddha Temple (Linfen)
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Iron Buddha Temple (Gaoping)
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Pagoda of Fogong Temple
The Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple () of Ying County, Shanxi province, China, is a wooden Chinese pagoda built in 1056, during the Khitan-led Liao dynasty. The pagoda was built by Emperor Daozong of Liao (Hongji) at the site of his grandmoth ...
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Puhua Temple
The Puhua Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Taihuai Town of Wutai County, Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
History
The time for the establishment of the Puhua Temple has been unable to be verified. It is also called "Temple of Jade Emperor" ( ...
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Qifo Temple
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Shuanglin Temple
The Shuanglin Temple () is a large Buddhist temple in the Shanxi Province of China. It is situated in the countryside of Qiaotou village about southwest of the ancient city of Pingyao. It is among the many cultural monuments located in the Pingya ...
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The Hanging Temple
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Xuanzhong Temple
Xuanzhong Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Jiaocheng County, Shanxi, China. After Ennin introduced Pure Land Buddhism to Japan, Xuanzhong Temple is regard as one of the cradles of Pure Land Buddhism in both Chinese Buddhism and Japan ...
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Yanqing Temple
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Yuanzhao Temple
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Zhenguo Temple
Zhenguo Temple () is a Buddhist temple located 10 km from Pingyao in the village of Hadongcun, in Shanxi Province, China. The temple's oldest hall, the Wanfo Hall, was built in 963 during the Northern Han dynasty, and is notable for featur ...
Sichuan
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Mount Emei
Mount Emei (; ), alternately Mount Omei, is a mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. Mount Emei sits at the western rim of the Sichuan Basin. The mountains west of it are know ...
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Baoguo Temple (Mount Emei)
Baoguo Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Emei, in Emeishan City, Sichuan, China. It is the site of the Buddhist Association of Mount Emei. The temple mainly enshrines Buddhist Bodhisattvas as well as sages of Confucianism and dei ...
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Fuhu Temple
Fuhu Temple ( Chinese: 伏虎寺; pinyin: Fúhǔ Sì) is an ancient Buddhist temple located in the foothills of Mount Emei in Sichuan Province, China. It has been a Provincial-Level Protected Cultural Relic of Sichuan Province since 2002, and a ...
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Hongchunping Temple
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Huazang Temple
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Qingyin Pavilion
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Wannian Temple
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Xixiang Chi
Xixiang Chi (), also known as Tianhua Chanyuan (), is one of the most important Buddhist temples and monasteries on Mount Emei in Emeishan City, Sichuan, China.
The temple is located more than 2,000 metres above sea level. The monastery was fo ...
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Xianfeng Temple
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Bao'en Temple (Pingwu)
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Baoguang Temple
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Luohan Temple (Shifang)
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Qiongzhu Temple
Qiongzhu Temple, or Bamboo Temple (), is a East Asian Buddhism, Buddhist temple situated on Yu'an Mountain () to the northwest of Kunming, Yunnan, China. The name of the temple (Qiongzhu) refers to a type of bamboo (genus Qiongzhuea). The Bamboo ...
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Wenshu Temple (Chengdu)
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Wuyou Temple
Wuyou Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on the top of Mount Wuyou, in Shizhong District of Leshan, Sichuan, China. It is in the same area as the Leshan Giant Buddha and is the main and oldest temple in the area, being designated as Leshan's ...
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Zhaojue Temple
Zhaojue Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Chenghua District of Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Zhaojue Temple has been burned down and rebuilt several times, due to natural disasters and wars; the modern temple was completed in 1984.
History
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Tianjin
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Guangji Temple (Tianjin)
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Temple of Great Compassion
The Temple of Great Compassion or Dabei Yuan () is a Chan Buddhist temple in Tianjin, China.
Background
The monastery was first built during the Qing dynasty, but has been heavily rebuilt and renovated since and consists now of the West Monaste ...
Tibet Autonomous Region (Xizang)
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Chokorgyel Monastery
Chokorgyel Monastery (; also, Chökorye, Chokhor-gyal) is a Buddhist monastery in Gyatsa County in Tibet.
History
In 1509 Gedun Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama, had a meditation cave and founded a hermitage here. The Gelugpa monastery of Chokorgyel ( ...
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Dorje Drak
Dorjidak Gompa ( "Indestructible Rock Vihara") or Tupten Dorjidak Dorjé Drak Éwam Chokgar () is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery and one of the Nyingma school's
"Six Mother Monasteries" in Tibet. It is located in the Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture ...
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Drepung Monastery
Drepung Monastery (, "Rice Heap Monastery"), located at the foot of Mount Gephel, is one of the "great three" Gelug university gompas (monasteries) of Tibet. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Sera Monastery.
Drepung is the largest of all ...
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Drongtse Monastery
Drongtse Monastery ('Brong rtse; Pinyin: Zhongze) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery was formerly one of the most important Gelug monasteries in Tsang, Tibet. There was also a chorten there.
Drongtse Monastery, is 19 km northwest of Gyantse and ...
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Dzogchen Monastery
Dzogchen Monastery (Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན་དགོན། ''rdzogs chen dgon'') is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located in Kham within modern day Dêgê County, Garzê Tib ...
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Ganden Monastery
Ganden Monastery (also Gaden or Gandain) or Ganden Namgyeling or Monastery of Gahlden is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet. It is in Dagzê County, Lhasa. The other two are Sera Monastery and Drepung Monastery. Ga ...
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Jokhang Monastery
The Jokhang (, ), also known as the Qoikang Monastery, Jokang, Jokhang Temple, Jokhang Monastery and Zuglagkang ( or Tsuklakang), is a Buddhist temple in Barkhor Square in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Tibetans, in ...
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Kathok
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Khorzhak Monastery
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Menri Monastery
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Mindrolling Monastery
Mindrolling Monastery (, English: "Sublime Island of Ripening Liberation"), is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma school in Tibet. It was founded by Rigzin Terdak Lingpa in 1676. Tendrak Lingpa's lineage is known as the ''Nyo'' ...
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Nechung
Nechung Monastery, Nechung Gompa () or Nechung Chok ( "the small dwelling", ), is the seat of the State Oracle of Tibet. It is also referred to as Sungi Gyelpoi Tsenkar, the "Demon Fortress of the Oracle King."
It is about 10 minutes walk down ...
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Palpung Monastery
Palpung Monastery () is the name of the congregation of monasteries and centers of the Tai Situpa lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the name of the Tai Situ's monastic seat in Babang, Kham (modern Sichuan). Palpung mean ...
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Palyul
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Ralung Monastery
Ralung Monastery (), located in the Tsang region of western Tibet south of Karo Pass, is the traditional seat of the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It was founded in 1180 by Tsangpa Gyare, 1st Gyalwang Drukpa, a disciple of Lingje Répa ...
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Sakya Monastery
Sakya Monastery (), also known as Pel Sakya (; "White Earth" or "Pale Earth") is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town (ས་སྐྱ་), Sa'gya County, about 127 km west of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Samding Monastery
Samding Monastery () "The Temple of Soaring Meditation" is a gompa built on a hill on a peninsula jutting into Yamdrok Lake about east of Nangkatse. It is located southwest of Lhasa, at an altitude of , on a barren hill about above the lake at ...
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Samdrup Tarjayling
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Samye
Samye (, ), full name Samye Mighur Lhundrub Tsula Khang (Wylie: ''Bsam yas mi ’gyur lhun grub gtsug lag khang'') and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during the reign ...
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Sera Monastery
Sera Monastery ( "Wild Roses Monastery"; ) is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, located north of Lhasa and about north of the Jokhang. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Drepung Monastery. The origin of its ...
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Shechen Monastery
Shechen Monastery () is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It was originally located in Kham, Tibet, but was destroyed in the late 1950s during the Cultural Revolution and was rebuilt in Nepal in ...
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Simbiling Monastery
Simbiling Monastery, also known as Shambuling Gompa, Shepeling Dzong and Taklakot Gompa, was located next to the large fort of Tegla Kar (Lying Tiger Fort) on a ridge near Taklakot, above the town of Purang, in the Ngari province, which is jus ...
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Surmang Monastery
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Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (), founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama, is the traditional
monastic seat of the Panchen Lama, and an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet.
The monastery was sa ...
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Tsi Nesar
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Tsurphu Monastery
Tsurphu Monastery ( or Tölung Tsurphu (, "Tsurphu of Tölong") is a gompa which serves as the traditional seat of the Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located in Gurum in Doilungdêqên District, Tibet Aut ...
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Yerpa
Yerpa (also known as Brag Yer-pa, Drak Yerpa, Druk Yerpa, Dagyeba, Dayerpa and Trayerpa) is a monastery and a number of ancient meditation caves that used to house about 300 monks, located a short drive to the east of Lhasa, Tibet.
Description
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Yundgrung Ling Monastery
Yunnan
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Chongshan Temple (Yunnan)
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Foguang Temple (Mangshi)
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Guangyun Temple
Guangyun Temple (), also known as Xuetang Temple (), is a Buddhist temple located in the Cangyuan Va Autonomous County of Yunnan, China.
History
Guangyun Temple was first built in 1828 by the Yunnan government, in the Daoguang period (1821&ndash ...
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Huating Temple
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Jinlong Temple
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Mange Temple
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Puti Temple
Puti Temple or Bodhi Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Mangshi of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. In Dai language, the temple is called Zangxiang, meaning Temple of Precious Stone. Covering an area of , the t ...
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Qiongzhu Temple
Qiongzhu Temple, or Bamboo Temple (), is a East Asian Buddhism, Buddhist temple situated on Yu'an Mountain () to the northwest of Kunming, Yunnan, China. The name of the temple (Qiongzhu) refers to a type of bamboo (genus Qiongzhuea). The Bamboo ...
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Three Pagodas
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Tongwadian (Dali)
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Wuyun Temple (Mangshi)
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Yuantong Temple
Yuantong Temple () is an ancient Buddhist temple in Kunming, Yunnan, China. It is located in a protected natural depression and in recent years it has been expanded with funding from Thailand. In the 1950s, it hosted a grand ceremony to greet and ...
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Zhusheng Temple (Yunnan)
Zhejiang
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Mount Putuo
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Bukenqu Guanyin Temple
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Huiji Temple (Mount Putuo)
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Fayu Temple
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Puji Temple
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Baoguo Temple (Zhejiang)
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Dafo Temple (Xinchang)
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Guoqing Temple
The Guoqing Temple () is a Buddhist temple on Mount Tiantai, in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Originally built in 598 CE during the Sui dynasty, and renovated during the reign of the Qing Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1722–1735), the temple is lo ...
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Iron Buddha Temple (Huzhou)
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Jingci Temple
Jingci Temple () is located at the foot of Huiri Peak of Nanping Hill. It is the second prominent Buddhist temple beside West Lake in Hangzhou, China. Together with Lingyin Temple, it is called the jewel of the southern and northern hills. The t ...
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Jiangxin Temple
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Jingju Temple (Yiwu)
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Lingyin Temple
Lingyin Temple () is a Buddhist temple of the Chan sect located north-west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The temple's name is commonly literally translated as Temple of the Soul's Retreat. It is one of the largest and wealthiest Buddhis ...
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Liuhe Pagoda
Liuhe Pagoda (), literally Six Harmonies Pagoda, is a multi-story Chinese pagoda in southern Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. It is located at the foot of Yuelun Hill, facing the Qiantang River. It was originally constructed in 970 by the Wuyu ...
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Mingjiao Temple (Zhejiang)
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Qita Temple
The Qita Chan Buddhist Temple (), or Seven Pagodas Temple, is a Chan Buddhist temple located in the Yinzhou District of Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. It is the only major Chan Buddhist temple complex within the city proper of Ningbo.
It is listed a ...
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Temple of King Ashoka
Temple of King Ashoka () is a Buddhist temple located in Yinzhou District of Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
History
Western Jin dynasty
The temple was first established in 282 by monk Huida () from the Western Regions, under the Western Jin dynas ...
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Tiantong Temple
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Yanfu Temple (Wuyi County)
Grottoes
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Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves (, Uyghur: بزقلیق مىڭ ئۆيى ) is a complex of Buddhist cave grottos dating from the 5th to 14th century between the cities of Turpan and Shanshan (Loulan) at the north-east of the Taklamakan Desert ...
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Bingling Temple
The Bingling Temple () is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. It lies just north of where the Yellow River empties into the Liujiaxia Reservoir. Administrati ...
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Dazu Rock Carvings
The Dazu Rock Carvings () are a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Dazu District, Chongqing, China. The carvings date back as far as the 7th century AD, depicting and influenced by Buddhi ...
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Hidden Stream Temple Cave
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Kizil Caves
The Kizil Caves ( zh, t=克孜爾千佛洞, s=克孜尔千佛洞, l=Kizil Caves of the Thousand Buddhas; ug, قىزىل مىڭ ئۆي, translation=The Thousand Red Houses; also romanized Qizil Caves, spelling variant Qyzyl; Kizil means 'red') ar ...
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Longmen Grottoes
The Longmen Grottoes () or Longmen Caves are some of the finest examples of Buddhist art#China, Chinese Buddhist art. Housing tens of thousands of statues of Shakyamuni Buddha and his disciples, they are located south of present-day Luoyang i ...
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Middle Binyang Cave
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Mogao Caves
The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 500 temples southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu p ...
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Mount Emei
Mount Emei (; ), alternately Mount Omei, is a mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. Mount Emei sits at the western rim of the Sichuan Basin. The mountains west of it are know ...
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Mount Xumi Grottoes
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Mutou Valley
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North Binyang Cave
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South Binyang Cave
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Stone Sculptures on Yaowang Mountain
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Tuoshan
Tuoshan () is a mountain located south-west of Qingzhou city, Shandong province, China. It features a number of historic sites and a native pine forest. Tuoshan is the core scenic zone of Qingzhou National Park.
Qiaoyu's Calligraphy
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Yungang Grottoes
The Yungang Grottoes (), formerly the Wuzhoushan Grottoes (), are ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes near the city of Datong in the province of Shanxi. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous anc ...
Statues
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Jade Buddha Palace
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Longxing Temple
The Longxing Monastery or Longxing Temple () is an ancient Buddhist monastery located in the town of Zhengding in Hebei Province, China, approximately north of the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang. It has been referred to as the ''"Best Temple ...
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Grand Buddha at Ling Shan
The Grand Buddha () is located on the north shore of Lake Tai, near Wuxi, Jiangsu. It is one of the largest Buddha statues in China and also in the world.
The Grand Buddha at Ling Shan is a bronze Amitabha standing Buddha outdoor, weighing over ...
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Guanyin Statue of Hainan
The Guanyin of Nanshan () is a statue of the bodhisattva Guanyin, sited on the south coast of China's island province Hainan near the Nanshan Temple of Sanya. The statue has three aspects: one side faces inland and the other two face the South C ...
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Guanyin of Mount Xiqiao
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Guan Yin of the South Sea
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Leshan Giant Buddha
The Leshan Giant Buddha () is a tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang dynasty). It is carved out of a cliff face of Cretaceous red bed sandstones that lies at the confluence of the Min River and Dadu River in the south ...
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Ming
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peop ...
bronze sculpture of
Mount Sumeru in Beijing
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Maitreya Buddha
Maitreya (Sanskrit: ) or Metteyya (Pali: ), also Maitreya Buddha or Metteyya Buddha, is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. As the 5th and final Buddha of the current kalpa, Maitreya's teachings will be aimed at ...
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Bingling Temple
The Bingling Temple () is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. It lies just north of where the Yellow River empties into the Liujiaxia Reservoir. Administrati ...
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Rongxian Buddha
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Spring Temple Buddha
The Spring Temple Buddha ( and ) is a colossal statue depicting Vairocana Buddha located in the Zhaocun township of Lushan County, Henan, China, built from 1997 to 2008. It is located within the ''Fodushan Scenic Area'', close to National Freew ...
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Statue of Kun Iam in
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...
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Ten Directions Samantabhadra Bodhisattva
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Tian Tan Buddha
The Big Buddha is a large bronze statue of Buddha, completed in 1993, and located at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, in Hong Kong. The statue is sited near Po Lin Monastery and symbolises the harmonious relationship between man and nature, peop ...
(The Big Buddha) in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
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White marble Guanyin of Yinxian
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