Lingyin Temple is located in Hangzhou. Its address is No. 1, Fayun Lane, Lingyin Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou. The transportation methods to this attraction are: take bus J17, J18, K837, K7, K807, Take the Y1 or Y2 road and get off at Lingyin Station.
Lingyin Temple, also known as "Yunlin Temple", is located at the foothills of Lingyin Mountain to the west of West Lake. The temple has a quiet environment and is the earliest famous temple in Hangzhou. It retains many exquisite cultural relics from various dynasties. This is the place where Jigong became a monk. It is said that prayers are very effective, and there is an endless stream of pilgrims who come to worship the Buddha and pray for blessings every day.
Seventeen hundred years of wind and rain have made Lingyin Temple a treasure house of history and culture: the plaque "Yunlin Zen Temple" hanging on the Tianwang Hall was inscribed by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty; the stone pagoda in front of the Main Hall, the Tianwang Hall The stone scripture blocks in front of the temple are relics from the Wu and Yue Dynasties of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms; the Buddhist cultural relics collected in the temple include ancient shell-leaf scriptures, gold-plated Buddha statues in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Diamond Sutra written by Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty, and the woodcarving dragon collection of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty. Lingyin Temple is also the temple where monk Daoji "Jigong" became a monk. The statue of Buddha enshrined in the temple of Zen Master Daoji holds a broken fan in his right hand, holds a rosary in his left hand, and rests his right foot on a wine jar. This is the statue of Jigong.
Lingyin Temple is backed by the North Peak and faces Feilai Peak. Although Feilai Peak is not a high mountain, there are many fantastic and varied caves on the mountain, and there are many Buddhist grottoes and statues dating back to the Five Dynasties. There are more than 340 statues, which are rare ancient grotto art treasures in Jiangnan, my country. The temple is full of incense all year round, especially on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year or Buddhist festivals. Devotees and believers come from all directions, and the temple is even more crowded.