Nanhua Temple, Shaoguan, Guangdong 广东韶关南华寺
Nanhua Temple stands by the Caoxi stream in Qujiang District of Shaoguan, Guangdong. Founded in the Liang of the Southern Dynasties, it is where Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, taught for over thirty years in the Tang, and it is regarded as the ancestral temple of the Southern school of Chan. It enshrines the preserved body of the Sixth Patriarch, and its gate is inscribed “Caoxi”.
