Where is Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou?

Lingyin Temple is located at Fayun Lane 1, Lingyin Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou.

Lingyin Temple, an ancient Buddhist temple in China, also known as Yunlin Temple, is located in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, with its back to Beifeng and facing Feilai Peak. Built in the first year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (326), it covers an area of about 87,000 square meters. The founder of Lingyin Temple is West Indian monk Huili. In the Southern Dynasties, Liang Wudi granted land and expanded it. Qian Liu, King of wuyue in the Five Dynasties, asked Master Yongming to give him the name Lingyin New Temple.

During the Jiading period in Song Ningzong, Lingyin Temple was known as one of the "Five Mountains" in the south of Zen. During the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Buddhist monk Lingyin raised funds for reconstruction. It took 18 years to build the temple, and its scale jumped to the top of the southeast. In the 28th year of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1689), Emperor Kangxi was given the name "Yunlin Temple" when he visited the south.

Architectural mode:

Hidden Temple was restored and rebuilt on the basis of reconstruction in the late Qing Dynasty. The temple covers an area of about 87,000 square meters, and Lingyin Scenic Area covers an area of about 2.577 million square meters as a whole. The layout of Lingyin Temple is similar to that of Jiangnan Temple. The central axis of the whole temple building is divided into three main halls: Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall and Pharmacist Hall.

The overall planning of Lingyin Temple is to form a five-layer pattern along the central axis: Tianwang Hall-Daxiong Hall-Pharmacist Hall-Tibetan Scripture Building (under the Dharma Hall)-Huayan Hall. At the same time, it was laid out to the two wings, and five hundred Luohan Hall, Dao Ji Hall (now called Jigong Hall), Guest Hall (Liuhe Hall), Ancestral Hall, Great Compassion Pavilion and Dragon Palace Sea Collection (collection display) were built successively.