[2025 Chongqing Attraction] Travel Guide for Tongnan Big Buddha Temple (Updated Aug)

Tongnan Dafo Temple, located at the foot of Dingming Mountain in Tongnan District, was initially built during the Xian Tong period of the Tang Dynasty (860–873 AD) and was originally named "Nanchan Temple." During the Zhiping period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1064–1067 AD), it was bestowed the name "Dingming Yuan." Later, due to the carving of a large Buddha statue into the mountain and the construction of the Dafo Pavilion, it was renamed "Dafo Temple." The temple scenic area, situated in the western suburbs of Tongnan County, Chongqing, at the foot of Dingming Mountain, is a national key cultural relic protection site. 📍Detailed address: Dafo Road, Tongnan District, Chongqing 🕙Opening hours: 08:30–17:30 🚉Transportation guide: Take Tongnan bus No. 101 or 107 and get off at Dafo Temple Station ⏳Tour time: 1–2 hrs 💰Ticket price: Free admission ❤Recommended reason: The scenic area preserves 126 niches and 928 Buddhist and Taoist cliff carvings dating back over 1,400 years, originating in the Sui Dynasty, flourishing in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It features one of the earliest ancient Chinese buildings with a fully glazed tile roof, the Dafo Pavilion. It also boasts "Stone Steps Qin Sound," one of the four ancient echo structures in China, the largest overhead "Buddha" character in the country, and rare natural echo walls like "Ocean Tide Sound," "Emerald Screen Autumn Moon," and "Yellow Silk Canopy," among other eighteen scenic spots. 🌟Highlights: Home to the world's first indoor gilded cliff carving of the Great Buddha—Tongnan Dafo 📝Tips: Next to the temple is the Tongnan Museum, which offers free parking and detailed graphic explanations of Dafo Temple. You can visit both together.

#internationaltravel At the foot of Dingming Mountain in Tongnan, Chongqing I found a thousand-year-old temple. This place was originally named "Dingmingyuan", also known as "Nanchan Temple", and then it was renamed "Big Buddha Temple" because the Song Dynasty chiseled a big Buddha in the temple. The morning light shines for the first time, and the ancient trees are towering. Step into the door of this thousand-year-old temple In my ears, the melodious bells and the monk's low singing of the heart was instantly washed clear and clear. A Buddha statue is solemn and compassionate Standing still after wind and rain Each one carries the prayers and hopes of the believers. The sun sets and looks far away. The lights are dim in the city. The Great Buddha Temple quietly guards this land and witnesses the changes of history and the change of the times-

🌺 March, the season for flower viewing, finds Tongnan to the west of Chongqing as a famous rapeseed planting base in the western region. The ten-thousand-acre rapeseed flower sea in the Chen Tuan's Hometown Scenic Area of Chongkai Town is a splendid display of the rural landscape, like a painting. Keep this guide for a 'limited edition' spring outing to check in a golden spring. 👍 Overall feeling: The rapeseed flowers in Chongkai are all about grandeur and a sea of flowers. The golden rapeseed flowers, like a golden ocean, intoxicate with their fragrance and roll like golden waves. 💐 Biggest highlight: Climbing to the commanding heights of Chen Tuan Mountain in the scenic area, one can look afar at the giant Tai Chi and Eight Trigrams patterns, crane patterns, and other land art patterns made of rapeseed flowers, seeing the spring colors illuminate the land and water. 📸 Multi-angle check-ins: You can climb to the Sleeping Immortal Tower and Chen Tuan Mountain Scenic Area's observation deck to view the distant sea of flowers; you can also stroll through the sea of flowers, with a view at every step; or you can take a painted boat to float on the sea of flowers, ride a sightseeing train through a 4-kilometer-long colorful sea of flowers; you can even take a helicopter to soar into the sky and overlook the flower fields, just come however you feel comfortable, the only downside is that your wallet is not thick enough, and your balance is insufficient. 🎫 Ticket: 50 yuan per person. This is also the most worthy of complaint, as the ticket price is slightly high in the sea of rapeseed flowers everywhere in Sichuan and Chongqing, and the scenic area charges for many entertainment projects. Just choosing a few to play, the ticket cost is at least 300+ yuan. ✔️ Best viewing period: Early March to mid-March. 🚏 Address: Chen Tuan's Hometown Chongkai Flower Sea Scenic Area, Chongkai Town, Tongnan District, Chongqing. The scenic area is quite developed, and even during the golden period of March, parking spaces can meet the demand. The only downside is that the parking lot is far from the core scenic area, and you must pass through a long temporary market selling souvenirs and snacks along the way. Of course, this is a common problem with tourism in China. ↪️ Recommended weekend 2-day tour route: Spend the first day in Chen Tuan's Hometown Scenic Area enjoying the rapeseed flower sea, tasting Tai'an fish, staying overnight in Tongcheng, and taking a night tour of the Fujiang River; on the second day, visit the first batch of national historical and cultural towns - Shuangjiang Ancient Town, and then go to Tongnan Great Buddha Temple for Zen meditation and blessings.

Tongnan|The city blessed by the Great Buddha Friends passing through Tongnan city must go to see the "Great Buddha Temple" which was built during the Tang Xiantong period and has a history of more than 1160 years Initially, this super popular place was not called the Great Buddha Temple, but was named "Dingmingyuan", also known as "Nanchan Temple", and later It was renamed "Great Buddha Temple" because a large Buddha was carved into the mountain inside the temple during the Song Dynasty Not only does the temple have the world's seventh, the largest indoor gold-clad Moya Great Buddha, the earliest building with a full-glazed roof "Qiyanyan Buddha Pavilion", one of the four major echo buildings in China "Shidengqin Sound", the largest national Moya carved calligraphy "Buddha" and other eighteen attractions It also preserves the Buddha and Taoist cliff carvings that began in the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, continued in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and lasted until the Republic of China, with a duration of more than 1400 years