Baoshan Temple is located in Baoshanwu northwest of Linwudong. According to historical records, the temple was founded in the early Southern Dynasties. It was first named Fuyuan Temple and was officially built in the second year of Liang Datong (536). temple. In the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, named the temple "Xianqing Temple"; because the West Mountain is surrounded by water, it is commonly known as Baoshan Temple, and the temple is the largest temple on the mountain. Emperor Suzong Li Heng of the Tang Dynasty also named it Baoshan Temple. Shanwu was also named Baoshanwu, and the name is still used today. From the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Baoshan Temple was known as a famous temple in the south of the Yangtze River. There were many eminent monks and the temple also experienced many rises and falls. Baoshan Temple was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province in the early days of liberation. The temple was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution" and reconstruction began in 1995. It was basically completed in the autumn of 1999 and was officially consecrated on October 23.
During the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Monk Shanxiao, the abbot of Baoshan Temple, went to Beijing to preside over Buddhist temple activities at the funeral of Concubine Dong E in response to an imperial edict. He was appreciated by the Emperor Shunzhi and was given the imperial pen "reverence to Buddha", which became a treasure of the temple. , the "Respecting Buddha" stele in the Yumo Pavilion on Shigong Mountain was engraved by Zhen Linmo during the Guangxu period. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937, in order to prevent the Japanese invaders from seizing more than 40 boxes of precious ancient books in the Suzhou Library, they were moved to the Full Moon Pavilion of Baoshan Temple. The abbot, Master Wen Da, was not afraid of hardships and took eight years to finally make the cultural relics available. The preservation was awarded by the Jiangsu Provincial Government and the Provincial Department of Education in the Republic of China. The Tripitaka in the temple is a wood-cut square volume originating from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It is known as the Wanli Collection, Jiaxing Collection, and Jingshan Collection. It is currently the most complete and one of the only two remaining in the country. It is very precious. During the "Cultural Revolution" in 1970, On August 14, due to the demolition of the Buddhist Sutra Tower Temple, the political working group of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee at that time ordered it to be transferred to the Nanjing Museum for preservation. A total of 340 letters, 2,586 volumes, and more than 1,300 other Buddhist scriptures are now preserved in the Nanjing Museum. (See Li Jiaqiu's "Western Mountains", Guwu Xuan Publishing House, 1998 edition) However, this property right belongs to the Buddhist classics of the Suzhou Buddhist community and has not yet been returned to Baoshan Temple.