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Yunju Temple 云居寺Yúnjū Sì
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Yunju Temple
A Buddhist temple at the foot of Shijing Shan ('Stone Sutra Mountain'), famous for the Buddhist scriptures that monks carved on thousands of stone slabs from the Sui dynasty to the Ming, begun by the monk Jingwan to protect the texts from destruction. The slabs were stored in nine caves on the mountain and in a vault below the temple; the halls were bombed in the 1940s and rebuilt from the 1980s, but several Tang and Liao pagodas survive, among them the Liao North Pagoda.
How to get to Yunju Temple
Near Shuitou village, Dashiwo town, in south-western Fangshan District, about 65 km south-west of central Beijing, roughly 1.5 hours by road.
Nearby
- Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site 周口店北京人遗址 20 km
Limestone caves on Dragon Bone Hill where the fossils of Peking Man were found - Tanzhe Temple 潭柘寺 40 km
Terraced temple courtyards in the western hills, shaded by ancient ginkgos and cypresses - Cuandixia Village 爨底下村 40 km
Ming and Qing courtyard houses stacked in tiers up a hillside in the western mountains - Marco Polo Bridge 卢沟桥 50 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 60 km
Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn
Also within 20 km: Jinshan Temple Relic Pagoda 金山寺舍利塔 (10 km), Tomb of Prince Yi, Laishui 怡贤亲王墓 (10 km), Shidu 十渡 (20 km), Longyan Temple Pagoda, Laishui 涞水龙严寺塔 (20 km), Cross Temple 十字寺遗址 (20 km), Xiahuliang Bridge 下胡良桥 (20 km).
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