Traditional Chinese 華林寺 Hanyu Pinyin Traditional Chinese 西來庵 | Simplified Chinese 华林寺 Jyutping Waa⁴-Lam⁴ Zi² | |
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Literal meaning Flourishing Forest Temple
Temple of the Flowery Forest Similar Temple of the Six Banyan T, Guangxiao Temple, Temple of the Five Hundred, Hoi Tong Monastery, Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street | ||
500 arhats at the hualin temple guangzhou china
Hualin Temple, formerly also known as the Temple of the Five Hundred Gods or Genii, is a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou, China.
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Hualin temple 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. 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.
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