Donglin Temple

Donglin Temple is a Buddhist temple approximately 20 kilometres from Jiujiang, in the north of Jiangxi province, China. Built in 386 CE at the foot of Mount Lu by Huiyuan, founder of the Pure Land Buddhism, it is well known for how long it has stood without collapsing.

Photo: Gisling, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Donglin Temple

Type: Buddhist temple
Description: temple in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China
Categories: place of worship and religion
Location: Jiujiang, Jiangxi, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

29.60112° or 29° 36′ 4″ north

Longitude

115.94407° or 115° 56′ 39″ east

Open location code

7PXQJW2V+CJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 683785686

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

Wikidata ID

Q2449364

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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Telugu—“Donglin Temple” goes by many names.

Burmese: “Donglin Temple (Jiangxi)”
Burmese: “Donglin Temple”
Chinese: “东林寺”
Dutch: “Donglintempel van Lu Shan”
Egyptian Arabic: “معبد دونجلين”
German: “Donglin-Tempel”
Indonesian: “Wihara Donglin”
Japanese: “東林寺”
Swedish: “Donglintemplet”
Telugu: “డాంగ్లిన్ దేవాలయం”

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