Chengdu - Manjushri Temple

(Local Name: Wenshu Yuan) The Manjushri Temple in the north of the town covers an area of 5ha/12.5acres. The complex comprises five temples in wood and stone, and was built in 1691 above the ruins of an earlier monastery dating from the time of the Southern Dynasties (420-589). The Hall of Shuofa Tang houses ten iron statues of Buddhist guardian gods from the Song period (960-1279) and in the Cangjing Lou are to be found more than 100 bronze sculptures of Buddhas and Buddhist saints from the Qing era (1644-1911).

Daci Si, in Dongfeng Lu Street, dated originally from the Tang period (618-907), but the present buildings are of the Tongzhi period (1862-74). At one time the temple was decorated with some