Wanfotang and Kongshui Cave 万佛堂、孔水洞Wànfó Táng, Kǒngshuǐ Dòng

About Wanfotang and Kongshui Cave

A Buddhist site above a karst spring cave, founded as a temple in the Tang dynasty: a Ming-rebuilt brick hall stands on a platform over the mouth of the Kongshui Cave, and inside it is a long Tang marble relief of Manjushri and Samantabhadra with a host of bodhisattvas. Buddha niches and carved sutras from the Sui to the Jin line the cave walls, and on the slope stand a Liao 'flower pagoda', one of only two in Beijing, and a Yuan pagoda with dense eaves.

How to get to Wanfotang and Kongshui Cave

In Wanfotang village, Hebei town, Fangshan District, about 40 km south-west of central Beijing and 4 km east of Shihua Cave. In 2025 the hall and the cave were kept locked, so visitors could see only the exteriors and the two pagodas.

Nearby

• Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site 周口店北京人遗址 10 km
  Limestone caves on Dragon Bone Hill where the fossils of Peking Man were found
• Tanzhe Temple 潭柘寺 10 km
  Terraced temple courtyards in the western hills, shaded by ancient ginkgos and cypresses
• Marco Polo Bridge 卢沟桥 20 km
  An 800-year-old stone bridge lined with hundreds of carved lions, by a walled Ming fort
• Fragrant Hills Park 香山公园 30 km
  Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn
• Summer Palace 颐和园 30 km
  An imperial lakeside garden of painted corridors, temple-topped hills and a marble boat

Also within 20 km: Shihua Cave 石花洞 (under 10 km), Jin Dynasty Imperial Tombs 金陵 (under 10 km), Cross Temple 十字寺遗址 (under 10 km), Yao Guangxiao's Tomb Pagoda 姚广孝墓塔 (under 10 km), Baqi Cave 八奇洞 (10 km), Jietai Temple 戒台寺 (10 km).

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