Chengdu Baoguang Temple Travel Guide

Scenic spot introduction:

Baoguang Temple is one of the "four major Buddhist jungles" in southern China since the Qing Dynasty. It is located in Xindu County, 18 kilometers away from the northern suburbs of Chengdu. Starting from Chengdu, walk along Sichuan-Shaanxi Road for 16 kilometers, about half an hour's journey, and you will see a tall temple surrounded by red walls, a pagoda in the sky, and shaded by bamboo trees. This is the famous Baoguang Temple in Xindu. Baoguang Temple covers an area of ​​more than 120 acres, with a construction area of ​​more than 20,000 square meters. It has deep and quiet temples, lush ancient trees, and five halls and sixteen courtyards. It is large in scale, rich in scriptures, and has many monks. It is a famous ancient Zen temple in Sichuan.

Attractions distribution:

Baoguang Temple preserves the typical layout of early Chinese Buddhist temples of "the temple and tower are integrated and the tower is in the center". There is a pagoda, five halls, and sixteen courtyards. On the central axis about 100 meters long from the Zhaobi to the Zixia Mountain behind the Sutra Storehouse, there are the Shanmen Hall, the Heavenly King Hall, the Relic Pagoda, the Seven Buddha Hall, the Daxiong Hall, and the Tibetan Sutra Hall. Jing Lou. On both sides of the central axis are the Bell and Drum Towers, the Jialan Hall, the Guest Hall, the Paradise Hall, the Ancestral Hall, the Chanting Hall, the Arhat Hall, the Zen Hall, the Shadow Hall, the Ordination Hall, and the East and West Abbot's Rooms.

Scenic spot qualifications:

National 4A-level scenic spot

Scenic spot features:

Religious and cultural tourism, religion