Hualin Temple

Hualin Temple, usually called Hualin Temple, is a thousand-year-old temple hidden in the streets and alleys of Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street, Liwan District, Guangzhou. This is an important witness to Han Chinese Buddhism. At that time, there was no current sediment deposit on the Pearl River, and the shore was still the current location of Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street. Damo from the west landed here, so here is called the beginning of the west, and since then in the west, that is, the current Hualin Temple began missionary, now the 8th line Hualin Temple Station is named close to here the subway station, Hualin Temple is currently slow to rebuilt.

Xilaichudi is a place name in the old town of Liwan, Guangzhou. It is located near Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street Square. The so-called Xilaichudi refers to the place where the Buddhist Damo ancestors came from the west and landed on the shore from here. It was on the shore of the Pearl River at that time. With time, the sand and mud were deposited. The Pearl River is now in the west bank of the sand.

Hualin Temple is a famous Buddhist temple in the old city of Guangzhou. This is the first stop for Buddhism to spread from the sea road into the Chinese land and have an abyss impact. It used to be located on the Pearl River. Damo ancestors are here on the east bank, so this is called the West. The main temple of Hualin Temple is also related to Dam.

Hualin Temple is located in Xilaizheng Street, Xiajiu Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou, built in the ordinary eight years (527). Hualin Temple is the first of the four major jungles of Buddhism in Guangzhou, the Chinese Buddhist Zen ancestor Bodhi Damo Chinese-Indian cultural exchange. Hualin Temple was formerly "Xilaiyu", Damo obeyed Master's self-training, Xilai Yihua Zen wonderful purpose, and Liang Wudi ordinary years from the sea to the north bank of the Pearl River outside Guangzhou (now the 9th road), "grass for the grass", and worked hard. In the 12 years of Shunzhi (1655), the first building of the Grand Palace, the second building of the pavilion Pangcha room, changed "Xilaiyu" to "Hualin Temple". Hualin Temple has an area of 30,000 square meters, composed of 500 Luohan Hall, Sheli Tower, Damotang and other buildings. In addition to the three treasures of Buddha, there are also five hundred statues of the clay statues of the three treasures of Buddha, including a wooden statue of Marco Polo, an Italian traveller.

Hualin Temple is located in Liwan District, Guangzhou, built in the ordinary eight years (527). Hualin Temple is the first of the four major jungles of Guangzhou Buddhism in the Chinese Buddhist Zen ancestor Bodhi Damo Chinese-Indian cultural exchange. Hualin Temple was formerly "Xilaiyu".