Lingyan Temple

Lingyan temple is located at the top of Lingyan mountain. Its full name is Lingyan Guanyin temple. The Buddha statues in the temple are mainly Guanyin. Walking all the way up the mountain, the trees are luxuriant. When we come here in autumn, we can see the red and yellow crisscross and colorful scenery. The scenery in front of the temple is very beautiful. There is a ginkgo tree beside the thousand handed Guanyin temple. Its thick and hard branches stretch out like hands, so it is called "thousand handed ginkgo". Ginkgo leaves fall all over the place, making the ancient temple more quiet.

The main building in the temple is the thousand Buddha Hall, which is also the best preserved and large-scale ancient building in the temple. It is named for the numerous Buddha statues on the walls of the temple. Thousand Buddha Hall was built in Tang Dynasty, and now it is a wood structure building rebuilt in Ming Dynasty. The most fascinating part of the hall is the 40 colored clay sculptures of the Song Dynasty, which are nearly a thousand years old and still in good condition. It shows the different images and personalities of 40 eminent monks. They are respectable and moving, all vivid and all alike. Liang Qichao once had the inscription of "the first sculpture in China".

Lingyan Temple

Lingyan temple is located under the seven star rock of Lingyan mountain, Xingfu Town, 5 km north of Dujiangyan City. It is called "Lingyan holy lamp" and used to be one of the "ten sceneries of Guanxian". It is different from the Lingyan temple in Jinan, which is one of the four famous ancient temples in China (Lingyan temple in Jinan, Yuquan temple in Dangyang, Qixia Temple in Nanjing and Guoqing temple in Tiantai).

Brief introduction of ancient temple

Lingyan temple is located under the seven star rock of Lingyan mountain in Xingfu Town, 5 km north of Dujiangyan City. It is called "Lingyan holy lamp" and used to be one of the "ten sceneries of Guanxian". It is different from the Lingyan temple in Jinan, which is one of the four famous ancient temples in China (Lingyan temple in Jinan, Yuquan temple in Dangyang, Qixia Temple in Nanjing and Guoqing temple in Tiantai).

The beginning of the construction

Lingyan temple, a famous Buddhist temple in China, was built in 479 in the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Lingyan temple was rebuilt in the reign of Zhenguan of Tang Dynasty (627-649) by huichong, an eminent monk.

After many vicissitudes

Lingyan temple has been abandoned for several times. Most of the existing temples are built after the Song Dynasty.

Address: qixingyanxia (behind Erwang Temple), Lingyan mountain, Xingfu Township, Dujiangyan City, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 103.61515907935

Latitude: 31.026652469251

Tour time: 3-4 hours

Traffic information: take bus No.1 and get off at Erwangmiao station or Yueliangwan station. Walk along Lingyan mountain road for about 1 hour to reach the top of the mountain

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day

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