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Tongnan Great Buddha Temple 潼南大佛寺Tóngnán Dàfó Sì
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Chongqing, Chongqing
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chongqing
- Region
- Chongqing
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Tongnan Great Buddha Temple
A temple at the foot of Dingming Hill on the Fu River just west of Tongnan town, built against a cliff carved from the Sui to the Republican era with about 126 niches and more than 900 Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian figures. Its centrepiece is a gilded seated Buddha 18.43 m high, begun in the Tang and finished in the Song, sheltered by the seven-eaved Great Buddha Pavilion; the temple also keeps Guanyin and Jade Emperor halls and an 1843 couplet by Zeng Guofan.
How to get to Tongnan Great Buddha Temple
About 1.5 km north-west of central Tongnan on the Fu River, in Tongnan District, roughly 2 hours by road from central Chongqing.
Nearby
- Dazu Rock Carvings 大足石刻 50 km
A cliffside storybook of Buddhist hells, mothers and thousand-armed Guanyin - Anyue Rock Carvings 安岳石刻 50 km
Tang and Song Buddhas carved into quiet hillsides, led by a 23-metre Buddha at rest
Also within 20 km: Shuangjiang Ancient Town 双江古镇 (under 10 km), Former Residences of Yang Angong and Yang Shangkun 杨闇公故里 (under 10 km), Chen Tuan's Hometown (Chongkan Rapeseed Fields) 陈抟故里 (20 km).
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