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Cháozhōu 潮州
Other names include: Hǎiyáng County 海陽縣 |
Nearby Locations:
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| South China Region Region |
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Cháozhōu 潮州 is a prefecture-level city in Guǎngdōng 廣東 Province in southern China.
Important Buddhist Sites
Other Notes
- The controversial lay teacher of esoteric Buddhism, Wáng Hóngyuàn 王弘願 (1876-1937), lived almost all of his life here
- Chúnmì 純密 was born here in 1901
- Yíguāng 怡光 lived here in the 1910s and 1920s, and was abbot of Kāiyuán Temple 開元寺
- The Japanese Shingon 東密 master Gonda Raifu 權田雷斧 gave esoteric initiation here in 1924