Biyun Temple

Last Update: 2010-10-7 21:52:00; By rainer   

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Biyun Temple
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Biyun Temple or the temple of Azure Cloud, is located near the Fragrant Hills Park. Its magnificent and elegant pagoda-halls were first built in 1331 of the Yuan Dynasty. The temple was developed from a Nunnery: Biyun Nunnery . It was expanded in the reigns of the Yude and Tianqi Emperors in the Ming Dynasty and in 1748 during the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. Covering a space of 40,000 square meters, the buildings are set against the hill and rise in layers.

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Edition HistoryEditLocation:

 at the eastern foothill of  the Fragrant Hills,  Sijiqing County, Haidian District, 16 kilometers away from Beijing City

Edition HistoryEditTicket Price:

10 yuan per person, no half-price tickets

Edition HistoryEdit Opening Time:

from 6:00 to 19:00 every day

Edition HistoryEdit How to get there:

take No. 318, 331, 360, 714, 733 and 904 buses

Edition HistoryEdit Tips:

If you go to Biyun Temple, you must buy a ticket of  the Fragrant Hills as well as a ticket of Biyun Temple.

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"quiet temple."

kerryweary said at 2010-11-10 9:30:00

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A very famous temple. The scenery is great with the sky reaching trees and magnificent pagodas. Very worth visiting, but it is not very easy to find.

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