Baiyun Temple, Liangjiatan 梁家滩白云寺Liángjiātān Báiyún Sì

About Baiyun Temple, Liangjiatan

A hillside temple on Baofeng Mountain west of Liangjiatan village, founded in the Tang dynasty and anciently called Xiyu Temple, built along the slope and cliff over about 7,800 sq m. The surviving buildings, dated by the national list from the Ming to the Republican period, include the gate, Heavenly Kings, Weituo, Dizang, Guanyin and Ancient Buddha halls and the main hall, with a pagoda grove of six tombs of senior monks east of the temple. Two old locust trees and nine ancient cypresses stand in front of the gate.

How to get to Baiyun Temple, Liangjiatan

In Liangjiatan village, Buyi township, about 16 km south-east of Pingyao. Like many village temples in Shanxi it is often locked, so ask in the village for the caretaker.

Nearby

• Shuanglin Temple 双林寺 10 km
  Some 2,000 painted clay Buddhas, saints and guardians crowded into ten temple halls
• Pingyao Ancient City 平遥古城 10 km
  An intact Ming walled town of courtyard inns, where China's first draft banks were born
• Mount Mian 绵山 30 km
  Cliff temples, plank walkways and gorges on the mountain of the Cold Food legend
• Wang Family Compound 王家大院 40 km
  Fortified courtyard 'castles' of a Qing merchant and official clan on a loess hillside
• Qiao Family Compound 乔家大院 40 km
  Walled courtyards of a Qing merchant-banking family, the set for Raise the Red Lantern

Also within 20 km: Qingliang Temple, Pingyao 平遥清凉寺 (under 10 km), Nanshen Temple, Gankeng 干坑南神庙 (10 km), Jinzhuang Confucian Temple 金庄文庙 (10 km), Pingyao Confucian Temple 平遥文庙 (10 km), Former Residence of Lei Lütai 雷履泰旧居 (10 km), City God Temple, Pingyao 平遥城隍庙 (10 km).

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