Putian Nanshan Guanghua Temple.

🌈🌈🌈Putian Nanshan Guanghua Temple
Location: At the foot of Phoenix Mountain, 3 km south of Putian City
🚇Transportation: Taxi
🎫Tickets: Free
⏰Opening hours: 8:30–17:00
⌚️Duration: About 1.5 hours

🔶Temple highlights
✔️Shakyamuni Pagoda: Built in 1165 (Quanzhou East and West Pagodas were built in 1200+), a Song Dynasty octagonal five-story hollow stone pagoda in imitation of wooden pavilions, the double-headed Kalavinka (a bird with a human head) on the pagoda is a feature
✔️Stone-carved pagoda: Sunlight Bodhisattva and Moonlight Bodhisattva
✔️Fangsheng Stone Bridge: Both sides are Fangsheng Ponds
✔️Tusita Palace: Dedicated to Maitreya Buddha
✔️Fangyan Stone Sutra Pillar: Original Song Dynasty object
✔️Red wooden fish with dragon head and fish tail: Original object from the Ming and Qing Dynasties

⭐️Tips
1. Park at the "Jietuo" gate, parking is free, incense is free, tickets are free, and vegetarian meals are free
2. Friends who need to worship do not need to buy extra incense, the temple provides it for free, just insert one in each incense burner
3. When entering the temple, do not wear too short clothes, and do not take pictures of the Buddha statues

Post by WellnessSeekers | Nov 14, 2024