Hoi Tong Monastery
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| Hoi Tong Monastery |
The temple's main gate
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Sea-Banner Temple |
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| Qianqiu Temple |
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Thousand-Autumn Temple |
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The Hoi Tong Monastery, also known by many other names, is a Buddhist temple and monastery on Henan Island in Guangzhou, China. It shares its grounds with the city's Haichuang Park.
The official English form of the name is "Hoi Tong Monastery", a transcription of the Cantonese pronunciation of the Chinese translation of the Indian Buddhist monk Sāgaradhvaja (Sanskrit: सागरध्वज, lit "Ocean Banner" or "Flagpole"), who appears in the Flower Garland Sutra as a devout student of the Heart Sutra. Variants include Hoi Tong Temple; the translations Ocean Banner Temple or Monastery,Sea Banner Temple, and Sea Screen or Sea-screen Temple; the Mandarin Hae Chwang,Haichuang, and Hai-chuang Temple; and the misreadings "Hoy Hong Temple" and "Haizhuang Temple".
From its location, it has also been known as the Temple of Honan or Honam.
The monastery was first established as the Qianqiu Temple under the Southern Han, a 10th-century Tang successor state whose capital was at Xingwang (now Guangzhou). The walled city lay north of the Pearl River, while Henan Island and the monastery lay to its south. By the end of the Ming, the temple operated within the private garden of Guo Longyue (). He was responsible for renaming it after the Buddhist monk Sāgaradhvaja.
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