Nanhua Temple
The Nanhua Temple or the Nanhua Monastery ( Chinese 南华寺 , Pinyin Nánhuá sì ) is an important Buddhist temple in the area of the prefecture -level city of Shaoguan in the north of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, China.
The monastery was founded over 1500 years ago. Huineng , the 6th Patriarch of Zen Buddhism , has run it since 667.
It is a national focus temple of Buddhism in Han Chinese areas .
It has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-370) since 2001 .
Web links
Commons : Nanhua Temple - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Footnotes
- ↑ Also Nanhua chansi 南华 禅寺.
Coordinates: 24 ° 38 ′ 57 " N , 113 ° 37 ′ 53" E