Yuquan Temple
玉泉寺
An ancient temple at the foot of Yuquan Mountain in Dangyang, one of the ancestral temples of the Tiantai school, with a Northern Song iron pagoda that is among the tallest and heaviest in China.
Yuquan Temple lies on the eastern slope of Yuquan Mountain in Dangyang. It was first built at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, and the Sui-dynasty master Zhiyi preached here. It is one of the ancestral temples of Buddhism's Tiantai school, and Shenxiu taught Chan here in the Tang dynasty. The Yuquan Iron Pagoda in front of the temple was cast in the sixth year of the Jiayou era of the Northern Song. It has 13 storeys, is about 17.9 m tall and weighs about 53 tonnes, and is a national key cultural relic protection unit. The temple also has a Great Treasure Hall, the Pearl Spring and a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree. Legend says that Guan Yu manifested his spirit on this mountain too. Tickets cost about 40 yuan, and a visit takes about 2 hours. It is about 50 km from Yichang's urban area and can be combined with Guanling on the same day.
Opening hours
08:00–17:30
Nearby sights
- Guanling Mausoleum
- Changbanpo Park
- Baibaozhai
- Bailihuang Highland Meadow
- Yichang Museum
- Tianran Pagoda
- Three Gorges Grand Waterfall
- Gezhouba Dam