North China
Shanxi
Datong City

Huayan Monastery

Huayan Temple or Huayan Monastery is a located in , , China. Huayan Temple has been burned down and rebuilt several times. The Mahavira Hall and Buddhist Texts Library still preserve the architectural style of the Liao and Jin dynasties.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: building in Datong, China
  • Also known as: “Huayan Si” and “Huayan Temple”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shanhua Monastry and Nine Dragon Wall, Datong.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Zeus1234, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shanhua Temple is a Buddhist temple located in , Shanxi Province, . The temple was first founded during the early 8th century of the Tang dynasty, but its earliest surviving building dates from the 11th century. is situated 740 metres southeast of Huayan Monastery.

Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 770 metres east of Huayan Monastery.

Railway station
Photo: 西安兵马俑, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The railway station is a railway station of Beijing–Baotou railway and Datong–Puzhou railway. The station located in , , China. is situated 3 km north of Huayan Monastery.

Huayan Monastery

Latitude
40.09134° or 40° 5′ 29″ north
Longitude
113.28804° or 113° 17′ 17″ east
Open location code
8PGM37RQ+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 366451679
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q15932853
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Japanese—“Huayan Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “华严寺”
  • Chinese: “大同华严寺”
  • Chinese: “華嚴寺”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “معبد هوايان”
  • Hungarian: “Huajen templom”
  • Indonesian: “Wihara Huayan”
  • Japanese: “上華厳寺”
  • Japanese: “華厳寺”

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Highlights include 普贤阁 and Hall of Universal Brightness.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Huayan Monastery”. Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.