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Bright Filial Piety Temple

Address: Corner of Renmin Bei and Guangxiao Lu, 2 blocks north of metro station Ximenkou, Guangzhou

Guangxiao Si

Category: Religious Sites
Location: Guangzhou

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Fodor's Review:

This is the oldest Buddhist temple in Guangzhou and by far the most charming. The gilded wooden laughing Buddha sitting at the entrance adds to the temple's warm, welcoming atmosphere. A huge bronze incense burner, wreathed in joss-stick smoke, stands in the main courtyard. Beyond the main hall, noted for its ceiling of red-lacquer timbers, is another courtyard that contains several treasures, among them a small brick pagoda said to contain the tonsure hair of Hui-neng (the sixth patriarch of Chan Buddhism), and a couple of iron pagodas, which are the oldest of their kind in China. Above them spread the leafy branches of a myrobalan plum tree and a banyan, called Buddha's Tree because it is said Hui-neng became enlightened in its shade.

Cost: Y5
Open: Daily 6:30-5
Metro: Ximenkou

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