Hualin Temple and the Huali jade street Temple Xiguan: Shangxiajiu, Chen Clan Academy, Shamian, Lizhiwan and Bai'etan
HUALIN TEMPLE AND THE HUALI JADE STREET · HUALIN SI
Xiguan: Shangxiajiu, Chen Clan Academy, Shamian, Lizhiwan and Bai'etan · 23.121°N 113.242°E Free Closure day
Where Bodhidharma is said to have stepped ashore from India in 526 — the 'first ground of the coming from the West' (西来初地), a street name to this day — and the small working temple that grew from his hut: rebuilt 1655, a hall of 500 gilded arhats (1849-51, re-sculpted after the Cultural Revolution), a relic stupa, and a courtyard hemmed in by the jade market. One of Guangzhou's four great Buddhist temples by title, one of the smallest by size, and free. The jade street around it is a real trade market and a real place to be overcharged.
Before you go Small, hemmed in and busy with the jade trade: if you expect a great monastery you will be through it in ten minutes wondering where it was. Come for the arhats hall and the street name, treat the jade market as theatre, and keep your wallet closed. Something wrong here? Tell us → Not this Not Hualin Temple (华林寺) in Fuzhou, the Song-dynasty wooden hall — different city; Guangzhou's is the Bodhidharma one by Shangxiajiu. Hours · Tickets · Booking + Add to trip Admission Free Free (platforms); a ¥2 incense ticket was charged years ago — keep coinsSource: m.gz.bendibao.com Check the official channel before you go Hours 8:00-17:00 daily (temple notice via platform, 2020)Source: gz.bendibao.com Check the official channel before you go Closed None published (platform listing gives daily 8:00-17:00)Source: m.gz.bendibao.com Check the official channel before you go ID None published Check the official channel before you go
Address 31 Hualinsi Qian, off Xiajiu Rd / Xilai Zheng St, Liwan
Verified · source published 2021-09 Source ↗ Navigate ↗ Copy Entrance Line 1 Changshou Lu, Exit A, about 650 m; or Line 8 Hualinsi (华林寺) station; the east iron gate opens onto the jade street
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How to book Walk in; the 2020 reservation rule (粤省事) was a pandemic measure and is no longer listed Check the official channel before you go
Language Chinese only; no English signage confirmed.
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Go in from the jade street side ▾ The 500 Arhats Hall is the reason to come ▾ It is a temple, not a museum ▾ Browse jade street but avoid expensive first-visit purchases ▾ View relocated silk guild hall through gate if closed ▾ Plan 8:00-17:00 but ceremonies may close halls ▾ Enter freely and ignore obsolete pandemic booking rule ▾
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Bodhidharma's first hermitage on landing in Guangzhou ▾ Named 1655, arhats regilded in the 1990s ▾ Guangzhou · 广州 · Haoliday Atlas