Mei'an Temple
The Mei'an Temple or the Mei'an Monastery ( Chinese 梅庵 , Pinyin Mei'an , English Mei'an Temple / Plum Nunnery - " Plums -Nonnenkloster") is a Buddhist temple in the prefecture-level city of Zhaoqing in south China 's Guangdong Province .
The monastery was built by the monk Zhiyuan 智 远 in the 2nd year (996) of the Zhidao reign of the Northern Song Dynasty . Huineng , the sixth patriarch of Chan Buddhism, loved Japanese plums so much that he planted a tree in every place he went.
It has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (4-109) since 1996 . Today it houses the Zhaoqing Museum .
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Coordinates: 23 ° 3 ′ 11 " N , 112 ° 26 ′ 32" E