Baoguang Temple

The Baoguang Temple (Chinese: 宝光寺; pinyin: Bǎogūang Sì) is located in Xindu district 18 km north of Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.

On August 16, 1956, the temple was listed as one of the first group of Sichuan Historical and Revolution Culture Heritage Conservation unit.

The temples has a number of halls, including the Qing-era Arhat Hall (罗汉堂), containing 500 two-meter-high clay figurines of arhats, as well as statues of Ksitigarbha, Samantabhadra, Manjusri, the Thousand-armed Guanyin and the Wisdom King Mahamayuri.

The temple also houses numerous treasures, including white jade Buddha from Burma and a stone tablet engraved with 1000 Buddhist figures.

The top of the pagoda is gold-plated, and each of the four sides of every floor has an image of the Buddha inlaid in gold.