Shuanggui Temple

Shuanggui Temple stands in Jindai town, Liangping, and takes its name from two osmanthus trees in the compound. It was founded in 1653, the tenth year of Shunzhi, by the Chan master Poshan Haiming, who built it as Fuguo Temple with the support of Yao Yulin, a general of the Southern Ming. From 1653 to 1926 it passed through seven generations of abbots, including Poshan and Zhuchan, and grew to seven halls, eight tang and eight courts; in the Republican period it was called the first of the Shu monasteries and the ancestral court of south-western Chan. In 1983 the State Council confirmed it as a national key Buddhist temple of the Han Chinese area.