Tiantong Temple

Visitor information

Also known as

天童寺

City

Ningbo

Coordinates

29.8073461, 121.7905538

About Tiantong Temple

Tiantong Temple is located in Tiantong Village, Dongwu Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, at the foothills of Taibai Mountain, 25 kilometers east of Ningbo City. The temple covers an area of more than 76,400 square meters, with a construction area of more than 38,800 square meters. Tiantong Temple was built in the first year of Yongkang in the Western Jin Dynasty (300 AD). It is one of the five famous temples of Zen Buddhism and is known as the "Southeast Buddhist Kingdom". The temple is located at the foot of the mountainous Taibai Mountain. "The peaks embrace one temple, and one temple controls all the peaks." There are six peaks in the east, west and north. Tiantong Temple basically maintains the layout of the Ming Dynasty. The layout of the temple is rigorous, the structure is exquisite, and the priorities are clear.

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