Nanjing Pilu Temple's Zen Autumn

Visit Pilu Temple for a moment of Zen in autumn, for the golden ginkgo trees and the perfect combination of the Guanyin statue, and for the enlightenment of a divination lot in the Arhat Hall. . 🔆Transportation Nanjing Pilu Temple is located at No. 4 Hanfu Street, Nanjing, about a 15-minute walk from Daxinggong Station on Line 3. ♨️Price ✔️Admission: CNY 10 ✔️Divination lot: CNY 20 ✔️Vegetarian meal: CNY 20 🔥Temple Highlights ✔️Built during the Jiajing period of the Ming dynasty. The entire building features red pillars and brown tiles, with flying eaves and upturned corners, full of Jiangnan characteristics. ✔️The golden ginkgo trees are a feature of Pilu Temple. It is said that the two ginkgo trees in the courtyard were planted by Zeng Guofan himself. The leaves of the one in front of the Mahavira Hall have already fallen. More worth looking forward to is the tall ginkgo tree in front of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Building behind the Mahavira Hall, which is the last beautiful sight of autumn. ✔️In front of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Building is a Guanyin statue 8.8 meters high, with a unique shape, right leg bent, left foot naturally placed, showing a free and tranquil demeanor. ✔️The Ten Thousand Buddhas Building is the largest single ancient building in China imitating the Ming and Qing dynasties of Chinese Buddhism, where you can climb the building to enjoy the view. Inside the building are carved beams and painted rafters, pearl lamps and caisson ceilings, more than 10,000 gilded bronze Buddhas in various forms, as well as the Great Bao'en Temple chime and lotus tank and other treasures of the temple. ✔️You can draw divination lots in the Five Hundred Arhats Hall on the first floor. First, choose a Buddha statue in your heart, then count to your birth age. The number you stop at, then find the corresponding lot. If you count while thinking about the question you need to solve, it will be more effective. ✔️The Western Three Saints Hall on one side of the Ginkgo Square houses eleven relics of the saints, which are supreme Buddhist treasures. ✔️There is also the Pilu Temple Historical Museum, which you can visit briefly.