Nan Putuo Temple

Nanputuo Temple is located at the foot of Wulao Peak in the southeast of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, adjacent to Xiamen University [1] and facing Bicheng Port. The temple covers an area of 258000 square meters and has a building area of 212700 square meters. Founded in the late Tang Dynasty, it was called Sizhou Temple. During the Song Dynasty's Zhiping period, it was renamed Puzhao Temple. In the early Ming Dynasty, the temple was abandoned and not rebuilt until the Qing Dynasty's Kangxi period. Due to its worship of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, similar to the Guanyin Temple on Mount Putuo in Zhejiang, and located south of Mount Putuo, it is named "Nanputuo Temple" and is one of the Buddhist destinations in southern Fujian. During the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, the blood stained book "Lotus Sutra" and the famous white porcelain Guanyin by Emperor He Chaozong were the most precious in the temple@The main buildings on the central axis of 1#

South Putuo Temple are the Heavenly King Hall, the Shakya ManiHall, Great Compassion Hall, and Sutra Pavilion. There are bell and drum towers, meditation halls, guest halls, and storage rooms on both sides, as well as the Minnan Buddhist Academy and the Buddhist Yangzheng Institute. There is a release pool in front of the temple, and in recent years, a "Taixu Master Memorial Tower" has been built behind the temple. The entire temple has a magnificent and orderly layout