About Us
Nanshan(South Mountain),facing Chinese South Sea, situated 40 miles west of Sanya, the only tropical seaside city in China, is the southernmost moutain in China.
Nanshan has been deemed an auspicious and blessing land in Brahma. According to the record from Buddhism scriptures, the Guanyin Buddha vowed twelve oaths to save all living beings. To dwell at South Sea permanently is the second oath of the twelve, Master Jianzhen, the ronowned monk in Tang Dynasty, tried in vain five times to sail eastward to Japan for prench of Buddha’s steaching. On his fifth sail to Japan, he was drifted to Nanshan.While staying in Nanshan forone year and a half, he set up a temple and did missionary work, and then, finally succeeded in his sixth voyage to Japan. The Japanese travel monk named Konghai also landed Nanshan on his way to learn Buddhism in Tang Dynasty. The well know saying “Good fortune as vast as East Sea, Long Life as great as Nanshan Moutain” shows further the Nanshan’s origin of relations between Chinese traditional culture of auspicious and longivity.
Nanshan Cutural Tourism Zone is a rare extra large-scale eco-cultural tourism zone with an area of 50 square km including sea area of more than 10 square km. Backing on its beautiful sea and mountain landscape and rich historical culture resource, Nanshan will be built into several cultural theme parks and resorts including Buddhism Park. Historical Site in India, World of Auspicious and Longevity. Statues of Fairy Tales, Gate Scenery District, relevant hotels, vocation villas and other facilities. Among those, the construction od Nanshan Buddihism Cultural Theme Park was started in NOV. 1995 and was completed and poened to public in April 1998. the park consists of sites and sceneries with Buddhisr Cultural including “Nanshan Temple”,”Nanshan Kwanyin Statue on South Sea”, “Savior Garden” , “Auspicious Garden”, “Longevity Valley” and “Small Moon Bay”. There are attractions like “Gold and Jade Kwanyin Statue” which has been put into the World Guinness Record, the world largest Stone Ink “Dragon-Pheonix Stone Ink” , “Brahma Bells Garden” , and further more a marvelous phenomenon and world focus, the giant called “The No.1 Statue project in the world as well as in the century”. This project took construction period of 6 years and had a Grand Buddhist Revealing Caramony on April 24,2005. It was really a great event of Buddhism occuring only once in a thousand years.
Nanshan, with its harmony and beauty, is now a tourist destination attracting more and more tourists coming from all over the world. It is here that people can enjoy them selves not only in the great tropical ecological enviroment with sunshine, sea, sand, blossom and greenery but also can feel with heart deep within the real beauty of peace and hatmony of Buddhism culture and tesre the joyfulness of returning to the nature.
