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Baisui Palace 百岁宫Bǎisuì Gōng
National heritage site · Chizhou, Anhui
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chizhou
- Region
- Anhui
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Baisui Palace
A ridge-top monastery above Jiuhua Street that grew from a Ming hermitage where the monk Wuxia (Haiyu) lived in the Wanli era and died aged 110; his body did not decay and, gilded, is still enshrined in the temple, and in 1630 the Chongzhen Emperor honoured him as a 'Bodhisattva of the Manifested Body'. Gate, halls, monks' cells and guest rooms are combined in one five-storey block against the rock, giving it the look of a castle from below; damaged by fire in 1717 and in the Taiping war, it was refurbished in 1982.
How to get to Baisui Palace
On the ridge east of Jiuhua Street on Mount Jiuhua, reached by funicular from the street or on foot by a stone path.
Nearby
- Mount Jiuhua 九华山 under 10 km
A Buddhist sacred mountain where 99 temples cling to granite peaks and mist - Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) 黄山 50 km
Granite spires, wind-bent pines and a sea of clouds straight out of an ink painting - Hongcun Village 宏村 60 km
A merchant village planned in the shape of an ox, mirrored in its own pond
Also within 20 km: Zhiyuan Temple 祇园寺 (under 10 km), Huacheng Temple 化城寺 (under 10 km), Shrine of Living Buddha 肉身宝殿 (under 10 km), Dayuan Cultural Park 大愿文化园 (under 10 km), Jiuziyan 九子岩 (under 10 km), Jiuhua Shenlong Valley 九华神龙谷 (under 10 km).
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