Guangxiao Temple (Guangzhou)

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Guangxiao Temple
光孝寺
Religion
Affiliation	Buddhism
Deity	precepts school, Chan (Zen), Shingon Buddhism, and Pure Land
Location
Location	Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong
Country	China
Shown within Guangdong Show map of Guangdong Guangxiao Temple (Guangzhou) (China) Show map of China
Geographic coordinates	23°07′56″N 113°15′04″E / 23.1321°N 113.251°E / 23.1321; 113.251
Architecture
Style	Chinese architecture
Founder	Yu Fan's family
Date established	233

Guangxiao Temple (Chinese: 光孝寺) is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Guangzhou, the capital of China's Guangdong Province.^[1] As the special geographical position, Guangxiao Temple often acted as a stopover point for Asian missionary monks in the past. It also played a central role in propagating various elements of Buddhism, including precepts school, Chan (Zen), Shingon Buddhism, and Pure Land. In this temple, Huineng, the sixth Chinese patriarch of Chan Buddhism, made his first public Chan lecture and was tonsured, and Amoghavajra, a Shingon Buddhist master, gave his first teaching of esoteric Buddhism.^[2] Many Buddhist scriptures were also translated here, including those translated by Yijing and the Shurangama-sūtra translated by Paramitiin (般剌密諦).^[2]