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Shuimu Mountain 水目山Shuǐmù Shān
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Dali, Yunnan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Dali
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Shuimu Mountain
A wooded mountain near Yunnanyi with the Shuimu Temple complex, one of the earliest Buddhist sites in Yunnan, a centre of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in the west of the province and a royal temple under the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms. In the temple's front courtyard stands a 15-tier square brick pagoda about 18 m tall, first built in the Dali kingdom and restored in 1605, and about a kilometre to the north lies a forest of 72 monks' tomb stupas, said to be the largest such group in south-west China. Xu Xiake, the Ming travel writer, was among its visitors.
How to get to Shuimu Mountain
About 20 km by road south of Xiangyun town near Yunnanyi, roughly an hour by road from Dali's Xiaguan.
Nearby
- Weishan Ancient Town 巍山古城 40 km
An unhurried Ming grid town south of Dali, where the Nanzhao kingdom was born - Dali Old Town & Erhai Lake 大理古城与洱海 60 km
Bai courtyards, old stone gates and lakeside bike rides beneath the Cangshan peaks
Also within 20 km: Yunnanyi 云南驿 (under 10 km), Tianshengqiao Natural Bridge, Midu 弥渡天生桥 (under 10 km), Nanzhao Iron Pillar 南诏铁柱 (20 km), Wutai Temple, Midu 五台大寺 (20 km).
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