Yanshou temple is located 2 kilometers northeast of Heishan village, Changping District, 50km from Beijing city center. Yanshou Temple o­n the southern slope of Yinshan (Silver) Hill near Haizi Village. During the Liao and Kin dynasties many Buddhist temples were built around Yinshan. It is said that there were as many as seventy-two temples at o­ne time, Yanshou, also called Fahua Temple, built in 1125, the grandest of all. The pagoda forest was actually the cemetery of the monks of the temple.