Photos of Panlong Temple

Panlong Temple is one of the most incense temples in Kunming. It is located on Panlong Mountain on the east bank of Dianchi Lake, about 40 kilometers away from downtown Kunming and 3 kilometers southeast of Jincheng Town in Jinning County. It is jointly known as Kunming Xishan and Binchuan Jizu Mountain. The three major Buddhist places in Yunnan were announced as Kunming cultural relics protection units in 1983. Panlong Temple Temple is built on the mountain. There are one, two and three-day gates in the mountain gate. There are more than 20 courtyards, including Yingxian Bridge, Sleeping Buddha Hall, Luzu Hall, Zushi Hall, Daxiong Hall, Jade Emperor Pavilion, Jialan Hall and Medicine Master Hall. The gods of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, among which Panlong Patriarch Hall, Pharmacist Hall and Guanyin Hall are very rich in incense. There are lush trees around the temple, among which camellias and pine and cypresses are very famous. It turned out that there was Wansong Temple, and a tall Guanhai Building had been built, and when you climbed it, you could enjoy the scenery of Dianchi Lake in the distance. Panlong Temple is hidden on the quiet Panlong Mountain. To climb this Buddhist paradise, you must go out of the "four gates". First out of the east gate of Jincheng, there is the archway of "Southern Yunnan Spiritual Realm", which is the gate of "entry". After passing through the ruins of Xiangshan Academy, you will enter the Panlong Mountain Gate, which is the gate of the "mountain". Then pass Yingshan Lake, circle up, and pass through three gates of heaven, which are the gates of "Heaven"; then pass through the Sleeping Buddha Hall and Lvzu Pavilion, and you can see the Panlong Temple Gate, which is the "Buddha" gate. , is the "Tao" gate, or the "Sacred" gate. Panlong Temple has camellias in the Yuan Dynasty, cinnabar magnolias in the Ming Dynasty, red plums in the Ming Dynasty, and silver osmanthus in the Qing Dynasty. There is a "Camellia Hall" in Panlong Temple. Although it is a small courtyard, there are two camellia trees in the courtyard. According to legend, they were planted by monk Lianfeng. It has a history of 600 years. One of them belongs to the "lion head" with nine hearts and eighteen petals. The flowers are bigger than the mouth of the bowl, and the colors are very bright. Ancient Camellia in the Golden Temple. Another "soft branch pine nut scale", the tree is more than zhang tall, and the root is thick with measurements. Every year on the first day of the eighth lunar month, there is the Panlong Temple Meeting. On the day of the temple fair, thousands of pilgrims and tourists come here to worship the Buddha and rush to the temple fair, grinding their shoulders one after another. Most of them are from Kunming, Chenggong, Kunyang and Yuxi. The scene of temple fairs is so lively that no other temple fair in Kunming can be compared.