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Hongluo Temple 红螺寺Hóngluó Sì
4A scenic area · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Hongluo Temple
A large Buddhist temple at the southern foot of Hongluo Mountain, by tradition founded in 338 and rebuilt many times, which became a leading centre of Pure Land Buddhism in northern China under the Qing masters Jixing and Yinguang. Its halls are laid out in several courtyards on the hillside, surrounded by an old pine forest, with Hongluo Lake to the south.
How to get to Hongluo Temple
About 4 km north of Huairou town, Huairou District, roughly 55 km north-north-east of central Beijing and about an hour by road.
Nearby
- Great Wall at Mutianyu 慕田峪长城 under 10 km
Restored Ming watchtowers riding a wooded ridge, with a toboggan run back down - Ming Tombs 明十三陵 30 km
Stone guardians on the Sacred Way and an emperor's underground palace to walk through - 798 Art Zone 798艺术区 40 km
Contemporary art galleries and cafés in the sawtooth-roofed halls of a 1950s factory - Bird's Nest and Olympic Green 奥林匹克公园 50 km
The Bird's Nest and Water Cube, venues of the 2008 and 2022 Olympics, lit up after dark - Old Summer Palace 圆明园 50 km
Broken marble arches of Qing European-style palaces beside lakes of summer lotus
Also within 20 km: Yanqi Lake 雁栖湖 (under 10 km), Qinglong Gorge 青龙峡 (10 km).
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