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Wutai Temple, Midu 五台大寺Wǔtái Dàsì
National heritage site · Dali, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Dali
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Wutai Temple, Midu
A temple complex in Dasi village, Juli, in south-eastern Midu County, founded in the Ming dynasty and repaired and extended under the Qing and in the early Republic. Its 'three pavilions and five halls', among them a Guanyin pavilion, a Buddha hall, a hall for Laozi and a Confucius hall, show Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism worshipped side by side, and most of the main buildings keep their original structure. Each year on the 15th day of the second lunar month it hosts the Wutaishan antiphonal singing fair.
How to get to Wutai Temple, Midu
About 25 km south-east of Midu town by road, roughly 1.5 hours from Dali's Xiaguan.
Nearby
- Weishan Ancient Town 巍山古城 30 km
An unhurried Ming grid town south of Dali, where the Nanzhao kingdom was born
Also within 20 km: Shuimu Mountain 水目山 (20 km).
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