Chengdu >> Wenshu Temple

	Attraction Typ: Temple, Monastery, Mosque, Church
	Location: City Centre - West
	Recommend: 4 Star
	Wenshu Temple
	Wenshu Temple is the largest and the best-preserved Buddhist temple in Chengdu with a history of over 1000 years. The temple is full of local worshippers burning incense on certain days; the tea house at the back of the complex is a great place to relax yourself and do some people watching, while the streets outside is filled with blind fortune-tellers and hawkers selling joss sticks, paper money and statues, and so on.
Wenshu Temple (Chinese: 文殊院; pinyin: wénshūyuàn): Wenshu Temple, located in the northwest of Chengdu , is the largest and the best-preserved Buddhist temple in Chengdu with a history of over 1000 years. The temple covers an area of 92 mu with more than 190 rooms or halls and other houses. In the temple, there are over 100 bronze Buddha statues, big or small, casted by famous craftsmen in the Qing Dynasty with a careful overall arrangement. Initially built in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Wenshu Temple was once called Xinxiang Temple. Later it was destroyed in war. The current arrangement of five main central buildings in this Temple dates to the Ming era. They are the Temple of the Emperor of Heaven, Sandashi Palace (palace of the three typical representatives of Buddhist: Wenshu, Guanyin and Puxian), Daxiongbaodian Palace (the palace for sacrificing to the statue of The Buddha Sakyamuni and for the monks to chant sutras or performing meditation), the Sermon Hall and the Sutra-Depositary Pavilion.