[2025 Chengdu Attraction] Travel Guide for Baoguang Monastery (Updated Mar)

In addition to Wenshu Monastery, Daci Temple and Zhaojue Temple, there is also a place that the locals believe in. Those who are suffering from post-holiday difficulties, obsessed with the stock market, anxious about studying, praying for various things... why not go to Baoguang Temple for a walk? The Fragrant City is filled with the fragrance of osmanthus, and you will feel full of happiness. Sometimes it is true that man can conquer nature, but we might as well believe in the principle of adding icing on the cake and providing timely help. As a thousand-year-old Zen temple surrounded by greenery and filled with the fragrance of osmanthus, it is full of oriental aesthetics. The red walls, green leaves and yellow flowers are especially suitable for ancient style photography. Of course, everyone who has been here says it is very effective. - I also received free incense, touched the blessing, walked around the pagoda three times, and counted the Arhats, hoping to bring good luck🙏 The following are the tips for the temple walk that are passed down by word of mouth: 1. When you come to Baoguang Temple, you must experience three folk customs: touch the word "Fu", count the Arhats, and pray for good fortune. ✅There is a big blessing at the door that you must touch. Step back five meters, close your eyes and walk forward. If you can touch it, it means you will be blessed this year! ✅After entering the temple, you can get free incense and pray for blessings. ✅The Arhat Hall of Baoguang Temple is very famous. There are more than 500 Arhats in total. It is said that the most spiritual is to count the Arhats. The importance of counting Arhats: 1. After entering the door, follow the order of men on the left and women on the right, and randomly choose an Arhat who you like to start counting. You can count forwards or backwards. You must pay attention to the first... The Venerable is the Arhat, and the Zen Master does not count. The number is your current age + 1, which is your age in lunar years. 2. Count the number of the Arhat statue you see and remember it. You can go to the entrance and spend 10 yuan to exchange for an Arhat card, which will show your fortune for the year. 3. If you are confused or need a detailed interpretation, you can spend 30 yuan to ask the monk at the door to help you interpret the fortune! 📍Address: Xindu Baoguang Temple ⏱️Time: 8:00-17:30 🎫Ticket price: 5 yuan 🙏Incense: You can get 3 sticks for free at the door 🅿️Parking: There is a parking lot at the South Gate 🚇Transportation: Get off at Zhonglou Station on Line 3, and take a taxi for the starting price Self-driving: about 40 minutes It is especially recommended to go to Xindu in this season. The whole city is filled with the fragrance of osmanthus and there are many good restaurants and shopping opportunities. Guihu Park is full of osmanthus flowers, which can heal all unhappiness. Food recommendations: Wu Daozhen Potatoes (Closed on Thursdays) Diao Ji Steamed Beef Zhongji Rabbit Head .

🕗 Opening hours: 08:00-17:30 all year round 🎫 Tickets: Regular ticket: 5 RMB (Monday to Sunday, January 1st - December 31st) 🆓 Free Ticket Policy: [One] Elderly persons aged 70 and above with the city’s senior citizen discount card [Two] Children aged 6 years and below or under 1.3 meters in height [Three] Disabled persons with disability certificates [Four] Active duty military personnel with officer ID [Five] Retired cadres with retirement certificates 🚌 Transportation: [Bus] Public transportation: Take Bus No. 651, 661a, 661b, 664, 666, 668, 671a, 671b, 671, 682, 683, Xindu Bus No. 10, Xindu Bus No. 3, Xindu Bus No. 4, Xindu Bus No. 8 to Baoguang Temple Station. [Car] Self-driving: Drive along the Ring Road, turn left in front to enter Chuanshan Road, drive 1.2 kilometers along Chuanshan Road, go straight into the middle section of Baoguang Avenue, and drive along Baoguang Avenue to Baoguang Temple. 🌟Attractions Highlights: 🏯 Baoguang Temple: It preserves the typical layout structure of early Buddhist temples. The stupa in the temple was built in the Tang Dynasty. It is a 30-meter-high, 13-story, dense-eaves square brick tower. 🗿 Luohan Hall: It houses the largest clay sculpture Luohan Hall in my country with a long history. Each statue is 2 meters high, painted in gold, with exquisite shapes and different expressions. 📜 Cultural Relics: The temple also preserves the stone Thousand Buddha Stele from the second year of Liang Datong in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the stupa carved during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and the "Three Treasures" praised by the monks: the sarira, the Udumbara flower, and the palm leaf sutras. 🍃 🗓Itinerary: 🕒 Visiting time: 1-3 hours recommended 🙏 Pray for blessings: During the Lunar New Year, Baoguang Temple will hold a New Year's Eve party to worship Buddha. There will be activities such as "Visiting Baoguang, tasting vegetarian food" and "burning incense at midnight" in the temple. 👣 Experience activity: Touch the word "Fu" and count the Arhats. Start from the first step of the Arhat Hall, count the Arhats of the same age as your own age, and make a New Year's wish. 📝Note tips: 🌬️ Best season: Spring and summer 🚾 Toilet: Please refer to the on-site instructions 🌈 Nearby attractions: 🏞️ Xinfan Donghu Park: The essence of Tang Dynasty gardens, with a history of more than a thousand years. 🌺 Wulongshan Baihua Valley: Suitable for afternoon visits, you can enjoy the lights at night, very beautiful. 📖 Historical background: Baoguang Temple was first built in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was named Dashi Temple in the Sui Dynasty. In 881 AD, Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty fled to Sichuan and built a temporary palace behind the temple. He ordered the reconstruction of the temple and the pagoda and renamed it Baoguang Temple. During the Song Dynasty, there were 3,000 monks, and it was at its peak. It was destroyed by war in the Ming Dynasty and renovated and expanded in the Qing Dynasty to its current size. 🌟 Baoguang Temple is a place full of history and culture. Whether it is to appreciate the ancient architecture or experience religious culture, it is a destination worth visiting. 🌈

Baoguang Temple is also one of the "Four Great Buddhist Monasteries" in southern China since the Qing Dynasty. Baoguang Temple is located in Xindu County, 18 kilometers north of Chengdu. It is said to have been built during the period when Gongsun Shu ruled Shu in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-36 AD) and was called Dashi Temple in the Sui Dynasty. Today, Baoguang Temple is the best temple in Sichuan in terms of its size, collection of cultural relics, and the number of Buddhist activities. The stupa in the temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and has been renovated several times. It is a 30-meter-high, 13-story, dense-eaves square brick tower. The temple has the oldest There is another more famous building distribution area in Baoguang Temple, which is the Arhat Hall. There are 577 clay statues of Arhats in the Arhat Hall. The 2-meter-high painted and gilded clay statue is lifelike, with various expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow and happiness portrayed in great detail; the shape is vivid, with all kinds of postures such as standing, sitting and lying down. The rule for counting the Arhats is: if the first step into the threshold is with the left foot, count from the left; if it is with the right foot, count from the right. Count until you reach the arhat that has the same age as your own lunar age, and judge whether you are blessed based on its good or evil, beauty or ugliness. transportation bus The one-way journey from Chengdu is about 17 kilometers (highway). There are buses to Xindu from Chengdu Xinnanmen Chengbei Passenger Transport Center, Zhaojue Temple Station and Jinsha Station. After arriving in Xindu, you can take bus No. 662 directly to Baoguang Temple. After becoming a Trip.com member and upgrading to a diamond member, you can use the airport VIP lounge twice a year for free. I arrived at the airport early and had a bite to eat and rest in the airport VIP lounge before boarding the plane. It was a good experience. #Free VIP room exchange on the 27th of each month Member Day #Chengdu Travel #Chengdu Travel #Mainland Travel

#June Good Places 2024 Baoguang Temple is definitely a great place to visit in Chengdu - It is one of the most representative Buddhist temples in Chengdu - The Great Hall is very solemn and solemn, and the architecture is very characteristic - There are many Buddhist artifacts displayed in the temple, which is very interesting - You can also take a walk in the temple and feel the beauty of religion Overall, it’s quite special, so be sure to grab your camera for more beautiful photos!

Chengdu has such a temple, far from the city center, it is Xindu Baoguang Temple. The temple covers a large area, composed of various halls, there is a stupa known as the 'Eastern Leaning Tower' and the relatively famous Arhat Hall. Everywhere is full of Buddhist culture and garden style. On weekends, you can walk into this temple and take a look! . 🚇【Transportation】: Metro Line 3 Zhonglou Station, 15 minutes by bike 🎫【Ticket】: 5 yuan . 🍃【Temple Layout】 The main road has Shanmen Hall→Stupa→Seven Buddha Hall→Heavenly King Hall→Daxiong Baodian→Scripture Building→Zixia Mountain, on the left there is a Cultural Relics Boutique Hall→Precepts Hall→Puwen Tower→Conference Hall→Baoguang Jing She, on the right there is a tea garden→vegetarian restaurant→Wuguan Hall→Arhat Hall→East Garden, etc. There is a map on the back of the ticket, you can visit according to the map. Most people will be at the Shanmen Hall, Stupa and Seven Buddha Hall, the further you go, the fewer people. Here are a few places I recommend to take a closer look. . ①Shanmen Hall Stepping into the temple, the first thing you see is the Shanmen Hall, most people will be here, and it is quite popular. . ②Stupa The tower body is slightly tilted, there are oil lamps at the bottom of the tower, you can turn around here. . ③Seven Buddha Hall You can't enter the interior of the main hall to take pictures, there is an aunt who guards it, you can take pictures outside the main hall, there are monks teaching here, you will hear the sound of teaching from time to time from the room. The aesthetics of the East is fully displayed here, it can be considered the most classical place in the whole temple. . 🍰【About Eating】 There is a vegetarian restaurant and a tea garden in the temple, and there is a small square outside the temple with many small shops selling food. . 📝【Some tips】 1️⃣The temple does not explicitly prohibit photography, do not speak loudly. 2️⃣The whole temple is full of classical Eastern beauty, the garden style is prominent, you can check in through various door frames and windows.

|||. The National Day holiday has begun, if you don't want to go too far, and want to relax, here are the beautiful and less crowded places around Chengdu that you can visit in one day! 🔵Xindu is the hometown of Yang Shen'an, a famous literary scholar in the Ming Dynasty, and his former residence, Guihu, has thousands of osmanthus trees. In the golden autumn of the lunar August, the osmanthus blossoms are fragrant. If you want to enjoy the osmanthus flowers, now is the best time to go. When you go to Xindu, you can't miss Baoguang Temple and Guihu Park. 🟣The difference between Baoguang Temple and other temples is that there is a Luohan Hall here, which houses 577 statues and is the oldest and largest clay Luohan Hall among the four existing in China. It is famous for its ingenious and varied statues. Counting the Luohans has become a unique religious custom here. 🏠Address: No. 81 Baoguang Avenue, Xindu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. You can navigate directly to Baoguang Temple 🎫Ticket: 5 yuan 09:00–17:00 🌟At the entrance, each person can get three incense sticks for free Counting Luohans method: Start counting from the first Luohan at the entrance, if you step in with your left foot first, count the left side, if you step in with your right foot first, count the right side. You can also choose one at will and count until you reach the one that corresponds to your nominal age. Then look at the title, action, facial expression, etc. of this Luohan, you can ponder and think about it, and see if you can comprehend some life philosophies. You can also get a Luohan card for 10 yuan at the entrance and ask the temple to explain it. 🟠Guihu Park is a memorial place for Yang Shen'an, a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty. There is a lake in the garden, which is small and exquisite, full of lotus flowers. There are Yangliu Tower, Chengxin Pavilion, Xiangshijie, Kangqiu, Lvyi Pavilion and osmanthus trees in the garden. No wonder the Dream of Red Mansions also chose to shoot scenes here. 🟣The scenery here is different in each season, and each visit will bring a different experience, it is really a treasure park that can be visited many times. 🏠Address: No. 109, Middle Guihu Road, Xindu Town, Xindu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Old Guihu Park 🎫Ticket: Old Guihu Park 20 yuan, New Guihu Park (Guihu Forest Square) is free 🌟When you get to Guihu Park, don't think you've arrived at the park. Old Guihu Park requires an entrance ticket, but it's really worth the price. You can buy a ticket to visit Old Guihu Park first, and then visit New Guihu Park. Both parks are in the same area and can be visited together. Be sure to taste the osmanthus cake and ginger candy made from Xindu's special osmanthus blossoms when you come here. 🅿️Parking: There are parking lots at the entrances of Baoguang Temple and Guihu Park 🌟Baoguang Temple and Guihu Park are very close to each other, you can arrange to visit one in the morning and the other in the afternoon, and it's just right to play for a day.

Everyone struggles, no one is superior The main theme is to move yourself first and then move God. Cycling and worshipping Buddha and burning incense do not conflict with each other——Baoguang Temple, a thousand-year-old temple When the Greenway is overcrowded When the pastoral scenery has gone to nowhere We can choose to burn incense and worship Buddha at the Baoguang Temple, a national protected temple. Immerse yourself in the ancient architecture and religious culture Xindu Baoguang Temple, a Buddhist Zen monastery, was first built in the Sui Dynasty. Its main buildings are relics from the Qing Dynasty. It is one of the fifth batch of key cultural relics protection units in the country. In Baoguang Temple, you can see the stupa known as the Leaning Pagoda of the East, the Mountain Gate Hall, the Main Hall, the Seven-Buddha Hall, and the Sutra Library built during the Daoguang and Xianfeng periods of the Qing Dynasty, the stone-carved stupa built during the Guangxu period, and the Hall of Five Hundred Arhats housing several arhats. Ticket price: 5 yuan Address: No. 81, Baoguang Avenue, Xindu District, Chengdu

🤔I accidentally saw the same red wall as Wuhou Temple‼ ️ 🚇This time I went to Xindu for business, and by the way, I went to the [Baoguang Temple] that I had been eyeing for a long time. 🙋I didn't prepare any strategy, but I found it pretty good. 🎫Ticket 5R➡️It is basically basic maintenance 📌No. 81, Baoguang Avenue, Xindu District, Chengdu ⌚️No admission before 17:00 ⌛️Baoguang Temple was first built in the Sui Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago, and is a veritable thousand-year-old temple 🏯 It is a temple with a long history, large scale and rich collection of cultural relics in Chengdu, Sichuan. It is also one of the "Ten Scenic Spots of Chengdu". 🧡💛💚💙💜 🚶‍♂️The entire area for tourists to visit is not very large, but try to enter the park before 16:00. After I entered the park at 16:30, several visiting spots were closed by 17:00. 🌊There is also Guihu Lake next to it. If the time is early and the weather is good, we can go there together. I didn’t go there this time. I can only go there next time when I go to Xindu for business.