Guanyin Temple Murals 观音寺壁画

About Guanyin Temple Murals

Records describe the temple as having once had 108 ranks of halls. What the district gazetteer sets down as surviving is much less, including the Piluo Hall and the Guanyin Hall, both of the Ming dynasty, together with a Qing-dynasty mountain gate. The gazetteer treats those old buildings, the murals on the walls of the Piluo Hall and the sculpture in the Guanyin Hall as important material for the study of early southern Chinese timber-frame architecture and of Buddhist mural and statue art, and records that the historian Gu Jiegang called them the temple's three marvels. Under the Qing the site was the setting of Lianhua jiecui, one of the twelve named views of Xinjin, and in 2001 the temple was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

What to look for

• The Piluo Hall, a Ming-dynasty building, and the wall paintings inside it.
• The Guanyin Hall, also of the Ming, and its sculpture.
• The Qing-dynasty mountain gate, one of the surviving structures the gazetteer names.
• The setting the Qing knew as Lianhua jiecui, one of the twelve views of Xinjin.

Location & getting there

Getting to Guanyin Temple Murals

Check which interiors and courtyards are accessible. Active places of worship and protected monuments may have different visitor rules.

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