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About Manting Park and Zongfo Temple
Manting Royal Garden, on Manting Road, was the Dai king's royal garden and is described by the Yunnan culture-and-tourism outlet Wenlü Toutiao as carrying forward more than 1,300 years of Dai history; it is organised into a royal-garden-culture zone, a folk-culture zone, an ironwood-forest zone, a song-and-dance performance venue and a 'red culture' plaza, and holds Yunnan provincial patriotic-education-base status.
The Zongfo Temple – known in Dai as Wat Pajie – is traditionally said to have been founded in the mid-7th century by two Theravada monks from Myanmar, making it one of Xishuangbanna's earliest Theravada temples. About 700 years ago the region's paramount chieftain designated it the highest-ranking temple in Xishuangbanna, used for prefecture-wide religious announcements and chieftain oath ceremonies; it now seats the Xishuangbanna and Jinghong Buddhist associations and the Xishuangbanna branch of the Yunnan Buddhist College, a Theravada Pali-tradition college established in 1995.
What to look for
- Manting Royal Garden's zones, including its royal-garden-culture area and ironwood-tree forest
- the Zongfo Temple
- the Yunnan Buddhist College's Xishuangbanna branch, seated at the temple
Location & getting there
Getting to Manting Park and Zongfo Temple
Check which interiors and courtyards are accessible. Active places of worship and protected monuments may have different visitor rules.
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Sources & visit information
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