Beijing, China · Founded according to official site history in 338; rebuilt across later periods
Hongluo Temple
红螺寺 · Hóngluó Sì
A Huairou temple landscape linking monastic history, mountain ecology, and Pure Land lineages.
Historical Context
40.385, 116.6184 · reviewed 2026-10-05
Open geographic source ↗The official municipal profile presents Hongluo Temple as a long-standing northern Chinese Buddhist center and records its association with the twelfth and thirteenth Pure Land patriarchs.
Beijing's official English-language profile dates the temple to 338 and connects it with later Pure Land patriarchs Jixing and Yinguang.
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Sources
The People's Government of Beijing Municipality
View source ↗Reviewed 2026-10-05Coordinates reviewed against the mapped temple feature.
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