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Religious Site Attractions In Jinjiang

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Jinjiang is a county-level city of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. It is located in the southeastern part of the province, on the right or south bank of the Jin River, across from Quanzhou's urban district of Fengze. Jinjiang also borders the Taiwan Strait of the East China Sea to the south, and Quanzhou's other county-cities of Shishi and Nan'an to the east and west, respectively. It has an area of 721.7 square kilometres and a population of 1,986,447 as of 2010.Jinjiang has the only extant Manichean temple in China and is near the eastern end of the world's longest estimated straight-line path over land, at 11,241 km , ending near Sagres, Port...
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Religious Site Attractions In Jinjiang

  • 1. Quanzhou Longshan Temple Jinjiang
    Kaiyuan Temple is a Buddhist temple in West Street, Quanzhou, China, the largest in Fujian province with an area of 78,000 square metres . Although it is known as a Hindu-Buddhist temple, on account of added Tamil-Hindu influences, the main statue in the most important hall is that of Vairocana Buddha, the main Buddha according to Huayan Buddhism. What is now called the Mahavira Hall is in fact the Vairocana Hall.
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  • 3. Cao'an Manichean Temple Jinjiang
    Cao'an is a temple in Jinjiang, Fujian. Originally constructed by Chinese Manicheans, it was viewed by later worshipers as a Buddhist temple. This Manichean temple in Buddhist disguise is seen by modern experts on Manichaeism as the only extant Manichean temple in China, or the only Manichean building which has survived intact.
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