Hankou Gude Temple 1
Gude Temple is located in the Shang Hua community of Erqi Street on the river bank, and it is also called the four jungles of Wuhan Buddhism with Baotong Temple in Wuchang, Lianxi Temple in Hanyang and Guiyuan Temple. Gude Temple has the only tower-shaped hall of Han Buddhism in China-Tong Yuan Hall, with a square base, 32 meters in length and width, 16 meters in height, and nine pagodas at the top, which is of great cultural value.
Gude Temple is east-west. There are two entrances in the temple: the mountain gate, the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Mahayana Hall, the Sutra Pavilion, the illusion room, the abbot room, the meditation hall and the living room. There are two corridors in the annex building, which lead directly from the mountain gate to the old room. There are tea kiosks, teahouses, bamboo forests, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards and four ancient wells in the corridor. A small river runs through the whole temple as a discharge pool.
If people who live in Hankou want to burn incense and worship Buddha during the Spring Festival, go to the nearby Gude Temple in Hankou!
Address: No.74, Landslide Road, Huangpu Road, Jiang 'an District, Wuhan
Tel: 027-82907553
2. Hanyang Guiyuan Temple Address: Wuhan, Hubei Province
Guiyuan Temple consists of three distinctive courtyards: North Courtyard, Intermediate Courtyard and South Courtyard. There are three groups of main buildings, namely, the Buddhist Scripture Pavilion, the Ursa Major Hall and the Luohan Hall, covering an area of 17500 square meters. The main building of the North Campus is the Buddhist Scripture Building, which is a pavilion-style building with five bays on both sides. It is about 25 meters high, with large ridges and cornices at the top, simple and exquisite. Face to face, four pillars reaching the sky, phoenix dawn, dragon playing beads. The whole building is exquisite and spectacular, resplendent and magnificent. There are many Buddhist relics here, besides Tibetan scriptures, there are Buddha statues, cultural relics, stone carvings, calligraphy and painting inscriptions and foreign classics. It is a Buddhist temple with a large collection of Buddha statues in China. When Master Taixu visited Myanmar in 1935, Buddhists in Yangon gave him a statue of Siddhartha Gautama carved from 1 ton jade, which was enshrined here. There are only three such Buddha statues in China, and the other two are listed in Beijing and Shanghai respectively.
Every year around the Spring Festival, people come to Guiyuan Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha in an endless stream, and the scene is spectacular.
3. Lianxi Temple
Lianxi Temple is located in Panlong Mountain, 7.5 kilometers outside Dadongmen, Wuchang, Wuhan. It is one of the four Buddhist jungles in Wuhan and the only Buddhist "female jungle" in Wuhan-a nun.
The entire courtyard of Lianxi Temple has a rigorous structure, proper layout, Chinese wooden structure style, simple and elegant, exquisite and delicate, quite close to the folk sentiment. The temple is not only famous for the Lotus Dojo in the four Buddhist jungles in Wuhan, but also a famous Buddhist education base. 1928, under the auspices of master sportsmen, the famous Huayan University was established by raising funds, and 30 disciples at home and abroad were trained for Buddhism in three years, making it the highest Buddhist institution in China at that time.
1959, the temple was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Hubei Province and was properly managed. Nowadays, the newly renovated Lianxi Temple has a quiet and antique environment, which attracts many monks and nuns at home and abroad to visit and pass on scriptures, making Lianxi Temple more famous at home and abroad, and the incense is growing day by day.
Transportation: No.74 and No.556 can be reached.
5. Baotian Temple
Baotian Temple is located in Hongshan, Wuchang. Hongshan was called Dongshan in ancient times, so the temple is also called Dongshan Temple. Song Duanping moved here from Ji You Temple in Dahongshan, Suizhou, Hubei. After many times of destruction, it is now rebuilt in Tongzhi for four years. In the middle are the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Ancestor Hall, and the Tibetan Scripture Building. On the right is the row hall; On the left is the abbot's room. Then Tiefo Temple, Huayan Cave, Huayan Pavilion, and Fajie Palace. There is the Bao Tong Tower behind the temple. There is a big iron Buddha in the temple, 5 meters high, in a kneeling posture, which is said to have been cast by Tang Tianbao. There are also two iron bells: one is the "Ten Thousand Jin Bell" cast by Meng Gong in the fourth year of Jiaxi in the Southern Song Dynasty (1240), with copper edges and many inscriptions on the bell falling off; One is Jason Chung, which was cast in the sixth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty.
Transportation: Take bus No.503, No.5 1 9, No.536, No.709,1to reach Baotong Temple.
6. Hongshan Baotong Temple
Baotong Temple, located at the southern foot of Hongshan Mountain, is one of the four jungles in Wuhan. Its architectural features, whether lofty or profound, are ups and downs with the mountain, looming and layered. There are release pond, Shengsenqiao, Jieyin Temple, Dongxitang, Daxiong Hall, Ancestral Hall, Zen Hall, Song cast iron bell, Ming carved stone lion and so on. There are small pavilions, terraces, strange stones and secluded paths behind the temple, such as Hongshan Pagoda and Fajie Palace. , hidden among pines and cypresses, looks majestic, simple and elegant.
The buildings in the temple are the mountain gate, the release pond, the holy monk bridge, the Jieyin Temple, the Mahayana Mahayana Hall, the ancestral hall and the Tibetan Scripture Building from bottom to top. On the left is the Zen Hall, and on the right is Fang Taitang. When you climb the mountain, you can see the Iron Buddha Hall, and then there are Huayan Cave, Huayan Pavilion, Dharma Palace and Hongshan Pagoda. There are three springs in the temple: Huanglong Spring, Bailongquan Spring and Ruquan Spring. In recent years, the buildings in the temple have been gradually restored. There are four gold characters of Baotong Temple inscribed by Zhao Puchu on the mountain gate. The courtyard wall has been painted and is now open to tourists. It is worth mentioning that the menu of vegetarian restaurants in the temple is the same as that of ordinary restaurants, but they are all vegetarian dishes without chicken, duck and fish, which are delicious and famous.
Address: south foot of Hongshan
Transportation: Take bus No.608, No.519 and No.557 in the urban area and get off at Hongshan Station.
7. Xiaofuji
Guangfu Temple Tower is located on the west side of Baotong Temple in Hongshan, Wuhan City, Hubei Province.
Xiaofu Temple Tower, also known as shadowless tower, is said to be shadowless tower at noon from summer solstice, so it is called shadowless tower, and it is also called small tower because it is much smaller than the nearby Jiling Tower. Originally the eastern foot of Hongshan, it was moved to the southern foot of Hongshan for restoration in the spring of 1963. Xiaofu Temple Tower is a pavilion-like tower with imitation wood structure, all made of stone, with an octagonal plane and a height of11.25m. The lower part of the tower is a stone Sumitomo with a diameter of 4.25m.. The tower is solid, with fake doors on its four walls, and carved with Buddha, Bodhisattva, Lohan, Heavenly King, Lux and Providers. As an ornament Hongshan, a famous scenic spot in Wuhan, has an ancient temple, Bao Tong Zen Temple, Hongshan Pagoda and Judge's Circle behind it, as well as a small pavilion, terraced fields, strange rocks and secluded paths, which are majestic, simple and elegant and have a beautiful environment. The newly moved Xiaofu Temple Tower adds a new pearl to the scenic spot.
Transportation: Take bus No.503 or get off at Hongshan (Baotong Temple) Station on 5 19, and you can see it.