Baoguang Temple & Gui Lake 宝光寺与桂湖Bǎoguāng Sì yǔ Guì Hú

About Baoguang Temple & Gui Lake

Two neighbouring sights in Xindu, north of Chengdu. Baoguang Temple, a working Buddhist monastery founded in the Tang dynasty, has a 13-tiered Tang pagoda with a visible lean and a Hall of Arhats with more than 500 sculpted figures. About a kilometre to the south, Gui Lake is a classical western Sichuan garden beside the old town wall, associated with the Ming scholar Yang Shen and known for osmanthus in autumn and lotus in summer.

How to get to Baoguang Temple & Gui Lake

In Xindu district, about 18 km north of central Chengdu; under an hour by road.

Nearby

• Chengdu Giant Panda Base 成都大熊猫繁育研究基地 10 km
  Watch giant pandas munch bamboo and tumble about among the trees
• Wenshu Monastery 文殊院 20 km
  An active Buddhist monastery of incense-filled courtyards, a teahouse and vegetarian food
• Sanxingdui Museum 三星堆博物馆 20 km
  Goggle-eyed bronze masks and a towering bronze tree from a lost Bronze Age kingdom
• Kuanzhai Alley 宽窄巷子 20 km
  Three restored Qing-era lanes of courtyard gateways, teahouses and Sichuan snacks
• People's Park & Heming Teahouse 人民公园与鹤鸣茶社 20 km
  Bamboo chairs, jasmine tea and roving ear cleaners in Chengdu's favourite park

Also within 20 km: Jinmen Silk Quarter, Xindu 锦门 (under 10 km), Longju Temple 龙居寺 (10 km), Fenghuang Lake, Qingbaijiang 凤凰湖 (20 km), Happy Valley Chengdu 成都欢乐谷 (20 km), Dongjiao Memory 东郊记忆 (20 km), Qinggangshu Village, Pidu 青杠树村 (20 km).

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