Dizang Temple Sutra Pillar 地藏寺经幢Dìzàng Sì Jīngchuáng

About Dizang Temple Sutra Pillar

A seven-tier octagonal pillar of red sandstone, about 6.5 metres tall, carved in the Dali Kingdom period with Esoteric Buddhist imagery: Heavenly Kings, Buddhas and bodhisattvas fill tiers of niches, with texts in Chinese and Sanskrit. Rediscovered in 1919 on the site of the old Dizang Temple, it now stands under a glass roof in the central hall of the Kunming Museum, whose collections also include bronzes, Ming blue-and-white porcelain and relics of the wartime Flying Tigers.

How to get to Dizang Temple Sutra Pillar

At the Kunming Museum, 93 Tuodong Road in central Kunming, a short taxi ride from Green Lake; the museum is closed on Mondays except public holidays.

Nearby

• Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 under 10 km
  Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways
• Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 10 km
  Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake
• Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 50 km
  Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes

Also within 20 km: Zhenqing Taoist Temple 真庆观 (under 10 km), Eastern and Western Pagodas 东西寺塔 (under 10 km), Fulintang Pharmacy 福林堂 (under 10 km), Anti-Japanese War Victory Memorial Hall, Kunming 抗战胜利纪念堂 (under 10 km), Lu Han's Mansion 卢汉公馆 (under 10 km), Yunnan Military Academy 云南陆军讲武堂 (under 10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)