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Jingshan & Jingshan Temple 径山Jìng Shān
4A scenic area · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hangzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Jingshan & Jingshan Temple
Jingshan Temple, on the summit area of Mount Jing in north-western Yuhang, was founded in 745 and in the Southern Song ranked first among the 'Five Mountains', the leading Chan Buddhist monasteries. It is honoured in Japan as one of the ancestral temples of Zen and in China as one of the birthplaces of tea culture. The present buildings were rebuilt on the old site from 1994, and the scenic area also takes in the old Jingshan path and the bell tower with a Southern Song imperial stele and a Ming bell.
How to get to Jingshan & Jingshan Temple
In Jingshan town about 50 km by road north-west of central Hangzhou.
Nearby
- Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 40 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings - West Lake 西湖 40 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like
Also within 20 km: Stone Pagoda of Puqing Temple 普庆寺石塔 (under 10 km), Qingshan Lake 青山湖 (10 km), Laohuling Dam Site Park 老虎岭遗址公园 (10 km), Tomb of Qian Liu (Wuyue Royal Mausoleums) 钱王陵 (20 km), Gongchen Pagoda 功臣塔 (20 km), Jiangnan Tianchi 江南天池 (20 km).
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