The temples where you can burn incense and worship Buddha in Guangzhou are Guangxiao Temple, Haikuang Temple, Giant Buddha Temple, Liurong Temple and Hualin Temple.
1. Guangxiao Temple
One of the famous ancient buildings in Guangdong, located at the northern end of Guangxiao Road near Jinghui Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.
Guangxiao Temple has a rigorous architectural structure and magnificent halls, especially many cultural relics. For example, the Daxiong Hall, which was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Shibo Spring dug by Dharma in the Southern Dynasty, the Pufa Tower and Shijing Building in the Tang Dynasty, the Thousand Buddha Tower in the Southern Han Dynasty, the Six Ancestors Hall and the Sleeping Buddha Hall in the Song and Ming Dynasties, as well as inscriptions, Buddha statues, terminalia chebula trees and bodhi trees, are all precious Buddhist relics.
in p>1961, the State Council was declared as a national key cultural relics protection unit. On March 5, 1986, with the approval of the State Council, the temple was managed by the religious department.
2. Giant Buddha Temple
Guangzhou Giant Buddha Temple is located at No.21, Huixin Middle Street, Huifu East Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province (on the west side of Beijing Road and just south of Guangzhou Department Store). Guangzhou Giant Buddha Temple was built in the Southern Han Dynasty (AD 917-971) as Xinzang Temple, which was built for twenty-eight nights in the sky on Liu Li in the Southern Han Dynasty.
in the Ming dynasty, it was expanded into the Longzang Temple, and later changed to the Patrol Office. In the first year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1649), the civil office was destroyed by fire. In the spring of the second year of Kangxi, Wang Shangxi of Pingnan donated his own royal salary, imitating the official temple system of Jingshi, and rebuilding the temple with Lingnan local style, which has high cultural and artistic ornamental value.
3. Liurong Temple
Liurong Temple is located in Liurong Road, Guangzhou. It is an ancient temple with a long history and is famous at home and abroad. The pagodas in the temple are towering, the trees are lush, and the cultural relics are gathered, leaving many famous people's footprints in history. Liurong Temple was named after Su Dongpo's inscription for the temple. Liurong Temple, like the flower pagoda in the temple, has always been praised by people, and Jinghui (another name for Liurong Temple) is known as "the pagoda shows".
Liurong Temple, with the characteristic symbol of "Liurong Flower Pagoda", was once a Zen Dojo. It was also known as the five Buddhist jungles in Guangzhou together with Haimin Temple, Guangxiao Temple, Hualin Temple and Giant Buddha Temple. In 1983, it was identified as the national key Buddhist temple in the Han area by the State Council, and in 1997, it was rated as the top ten tourist attractions in Guangzhou.
4. Haikuang Temple
Located between Tongfu Middle Road and Nanhua Middle Road in Haizhu District, Haikuang Temple is famous for its quiet environment and beautiful gardens. Haikuang Temple covers an area of 19,7 square meters. Its original site was called "Qianqiu Temple" in the Southern Han Dynasty, and it was changed to a temple in the late Ming Dynasty, called "Haikuang Temple".
Since March p>1993, Haikuang Temple has resumed its normal religious activities, and nearly 1 million yuan has been invested to rebuild the pagoda hall, the release pond, the seven-story monk's house and the comprehensive platform building of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. In 1997, a new stone pagoda named Baoyan Pagoda was built on the east side of the open space in front of the Ursa Major Hall.
5. Hualin Temple
Hualin Temple was formerly called Xilai Temple. Before the Sui Dynasty, this place was the bank of the Pearl River. In the seventh year of Liang Wudi in the Southern Dynasty (526), bodhidharma, a monk from all over the country (that is, ancient India), came to China to preach.
He landed at the beginning of Xilai today, and built Xilai Temple at the landing place. Later believers revered Dharma as the ancestor of Zen Buddhism in China, so they called it the place where it landed in the past. Hualin Temple has a history of more than 1,4 years, and it has passed through the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties.
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