Foguang Temple
Foguang Temple is a Buddhist temple located five kilometres from Doucun Town, Wutai County, Shanxi Province of China. The temple complex covers approximately 8.4 acres and contains over 120 structures dating from the Northern Wei dynasty to the Qing dynasty.Photo: Zeus1234, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Buddhist temple
- Also known as: “Foguang Si”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Doucun and Jiangfang.
Doucun
Town
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Doucun is a town, which is situated 4½ km southwest of Foguang Temple.
Jiangfang
Town
Jiangfang Township is a rural township in Wutai County, Shanxi, China. The township nestles snugly at the foot of Mount Wutai. It is located in the south of Wutai County. Jiangfang is situated 8 km south of Foguang Temple.
Foguang Temple
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Xinzhou, Shanxi, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.86893° or 38° 52′ 8″ northLongitude
113.38728° or 113° 23′ 14″ eastOpen location code
8PCMV99P+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4519464453OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q44615
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Foguang Temple” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Templu Foguang”
- Burmese: “Foguang Temple”
- Burmese: “ဖော်ကွမ်းဘုရားကျောင်း”
- Chinese: “佛光寺”
- Czech: “Chrám Fo-kuang”
- Czech: “Fo-kuang”
- Dutch: “Foguang Temple”
- Dutch: “Foguangtempel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معبد فوجوانج”
- French: “temple de Foguang”
- French: “Temple de Foguang”
- German: “Foguang-Tempel”
- Hungarian: “Fo-guang templom”
- Hungarian: “Fo-kuang templom”
- Hungarian: “Foguang templom”
- Indonesian: “Kuil Foguang”
- Italian: “Fóguāng-sì”
- Italian: “Tempio Foguang”
- Japanese: “佛光寺”
- Korean: “포광사”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foguangtempelet”
- Norwegian: “Foguangtempelet”
- Persian: “معبد فوگوانگ”
- Polish: “Świątynia Foguang”
- Portuguese: “Templo Foguang”
- Russian: “Фогуан”
- Spanish: “Templo Foguang”
- Turkish: “Foguang Tapınağı”
- Ukrainian: “Храм Фоґуан”
- Yue Chinese: “佛光寺”
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