Gudatu Nunnery

Located in Cangcheng District, Funei, the center of Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, Guda Tu Nunnery is a Buddhist temple in the ancient city of Chaozhou and a cultural relic of great historical value in Chaozhou. At present, there are still seven or eight stone inscriptions rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty in the nunnery, which can be traced back to the origin. According to the inscription on the incense tablet rebuilt in the thirty-sixth year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (1771). It is inferred that the business was built by the Dade monks in the Ming Dynasty. Other existing inscriptions in the nunnery show that during the 200 years from the first year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1662) to the nineteenth year of Guangxu (1893), several state officials paid attention to it, and successive eminent monks built and repaired the velvet. They also added screen walls, rebuilt Buddhist temples, and dredged ditches. In the third year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1877), Liu Guinian, the prefect of Chaozhou, also personally inscribed the plaque "You Datu Nunnery". In the high pavilion, there is a statue of Guanyin, which is more than 10 meters high, and eighteen incarnations of Guanyin in two corridors. The high pavilion was named Ci'en Pavilion, and Zhao Puchu, the president of the Buddhist Association of China, wrote the pavilion name.