Ningbo asoka temple

Tickets, opening time: 5 yuan

Scenic spot introduction:

Is a zen monastery.Located in the urban areas of ningbo peak of taibai 16 km east of China, is one of the buddhist "Chinese five mountains" in China.Is one of the "Chinese five brake" zen temples temple in China.Is the only domestic existing in India, named after the emperor asoka temple in one thousand.Asoka temple in the doctrines and cultural exchanges between China and Japan in China has an important position, especially for temple buddhist treasure treasure to look "Buddha sarira" famous Chinese and foreign.It was built in the western jin dynasty emperor wudi of minzhu three years (AD 282), has been 1700 years of history.He reportedly monk hui da to be in possession of physically sarira of sakyamuni pagoda, search everywhere, finally went to here, heard the bell, underground after the prayer, so he emerged from underground pagoda.Future generations to preserve the shakyas physically sarira, built the temple.