Ashoka Temple

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Also known as

阿育王寺

City

Ningbo

Coordinates

29.8485299, 121.7383887

About Ashoka Temple

Ayuwang [Ashoka] Temple is located at the foot of the Taibai Mountain in Baozhuang, Wuxiang Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. It was first built in the third year of Taikang (AD 282) by Emperor Wu of the Western Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,700 years. In the second year of Yuanjia (425) and the twelfth year of Yuanjia (435) in the Southern Dynasty, temples were built twice, and the scale of the temple was thus established. In the third year of the Liang Dynasty (522), King Ashoka was granted a temple title, and the name of the temple was established. Ashoka Temple covers an area of 124,100 square meters and has a construction area of 23,400 square meters. Ashoka Temple was listed as the second mountain among the "Five Mountains and Ten Temples of Zen Buddhism in the World" as early as the first year of Yuanjia in the Southern Song Dynasty.

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