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Canon Hall

The Cangjing Palace is located in Xichan Temple of Fuzhou and the distance is approximately 1.5 kilometers away from the center of Fuzhou. There are many sutras awarded by the previous emperors since the Song Dynasty in the palace.In addition of the temple's sutras, there are altogether 20,346 sutras in it. There are also 557 sutras found in the temple that were written with blood. They are rare cimelia of the country. As such, the Tibetan palace is known as the "ancient precious ... View Detail

Tuas Temple (Goddess of Mercy House)

It is located in Yu Mountain, and is also Goddess of Mercy Pavilion. But its name had been changed as Wanshou Pavilion that consecrating a stele called "Wishing you a Long Life". In the second year of Qianlong Emperor, it was changed to consecrate the Avalokitesvara of South China Sea. Behide the hall, there was an inscription that narrating the story Avalokitesvara became an official and became a girl from a boy. When Fuzhou was recovered in the Revolution of 1911, the Revolutionary ... View Detail

Main Hall

Mahavira Hall is the core of Yongquan Temple. There are three Sakyamuni statues called "Buddhas of Three Periods" in the middle of the hall, that means the past, now and the future. They are shaped in Ming Dynasty. The modelling of the statues are fine and smooth, showing grandfatherly eyebrow and kind eyes.Two copper little fairy children of more than 1m high are standing in the hall. Their head with double overhand knot and their cheek with dimple, and each of them is holding a flat ... View Detail

Jinshan Temple

Because it is a temple with a pagoda located on an island, it resembles the famous Jin Shan (Gold Mountain) Temple in Jiangsu Province discussed above and the Chinese since ancient times have popularly referred to it as "Little Jin Shan".The temple was originally built in the year 1131 AD of the Song Dynasty. The Jinshan Pagoda is eight-sided and has seven stories. It is made of granite and is about 7 meters in height. The small temple complex includes the "Guanyin Pavilion" ... View Detail

Tao terra tower

The Thousand Buddha Potter Pagoda was built at the gate of Yongquan Temple on Gushan Mountain, which is situated in the east suburb of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.It was originally built in Longrui Temple and moved to the present site in 1972 due to the original temple collapsed. Two pagodas stand at both sides of it, with Grandeur Misfortune Thousand Buddha Pagoda in the east and Puxian Misfortune Thousand Buddha Pagoda in the west. The Pagoda was fired in the fifth year (1082) of the Yuanfeng ... View Detail

Arrow Church St.

Shengjian Hall is located on the left side of the Court of Law. There are three sago cycases of thousands years for visitors to view and admire. Three sago cycases are very thick that one was transplanted from Xichan Temple in 1972. The nonlocal sago cycases are rare to bloom, and the other sago cycases are the same. But these three sago cycases are special that bloom every year. Because there were many abbots living in the Shengjian Hall from of old, it was also called Abbot's Quarters. In ... View Detail

King Hall

In front of the Hall of Heavenly Kings is a big golden plaque called "Yongquan Temple" that is written by Kangxi Emperor of Qing Dynasty. In the millde of the hall, there is a Maitreya sitting with smile on his face, and it is showing true to life. The four kings with martial appearance standing in wing-rooms on either side of a one-storey house, is still keeping the sculpture art style of Ming Dynasty. View Detail

Manpukuzi

Wanfu Temple is a temple on Mount Huangbo in Fujian province, China. It was built in De Chongchenyuan fifth year of Tang Dynasty (789 A.D). It is famous as the original temple of Yinyuan Longqi, the temple's 33rd abbot and a Chan master. He later travelled to Japan with his disciple Muyan to found the Japanese Obaku school of Zen. View Detail

Katsumi kitchen

Xiangji Kitchen is on the right side of Mahavira Hall of Yongquan Temple, and it is the monks' abstinence hall. There are stone pools and stone channels for washing the dishes and vegetable. They are built in Song Dynasty Tiansheng Years.There are four big iron pans for cooking, that is one of "three irons" in that temple. The caliber of the largest pan is 1.57m and deep is 0.8m. It is a rare big pan to cook with five bags of rice and a ton of water that is supplied one thousand ... View Detail

Xuefeng Temple

Also known as Chong Sheng Temple, the full name of the Xuefeng Chong Sheng Temple, located in Minhou County, northwest of the Xuefeng Phoenix south of the mountain. Tang Xiantong ten year (870) built the existing temple is rebuilt mostly Guangxu years. The main temple building is the gate, Dharma Hall, Main Hall, dining hall. Inside the hall from Myanmar III Tathagata Emerald Buddha. Eighteen different attitude to life. Four old trees, the mountains outside According to legend, the two ... View Detail