Hualin Temple
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Main entrance | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 華林寺 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 华林寺 | ||||||||||
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Flourishing Forest Temple Temple of the Flowery Forest | ||||||||||
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| Xilai Monastery | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 西來庵 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 西来庵 | ||||||||||
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The Hall of the 500 Arhats
Not to be confused with Guangzhou's Temple of the Five Genii, a former translation of the Temple of the Five Immortals.
Hualin Temple, formerly also known as the Temple of the Five Hundred Gods[1] or Genii, is a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou, China.
History
The Xilai Monastery was established in Panyu (now Guangzhou) by Emperor Wu of the Liang in the AD 520s. It is traditionally credited to the Buddhist missionary Bodhidharma, but he may have arrived in China as early as the Liu Song.
The name was changed to the Hualin Temple by the Zen master Zongfu (宗符) during his rehabilitation of its grounds in 1655.[n 1] There used to be a Gilded Ashoka Pagoda (阿育王塔) and 500 arhats statues (五百羅漢像) but some of them were destroyed afterwards.
See also
- Six Banyan Temple, also built in Guangzhou around the same time
- Ocean Banner Temple
Notes
References
Citations
Bibliography
- "Canton", Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878, pp. 37–9.
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Coordinates: 23°07′08″N 113°14′28″E / 23.1190°N 113.2410°E
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