Hualin Temple (Guangzhou)

Hualin Temple, also known as the Temple of the Five Hundred Genii or Gods, is a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou, China.
History.
The Xilai Monastery was established in Panyu (now Guangzhou) by Emperor Wu of the Liang in the AD 520s. It is traditionally credited to the Buddhist missionary Bodhidharma, but he may have arrived in China as early as the Liu Song.
The name was changed to the Hualin Temple by the Zen master Zongfu () during his rehabilitation of its grounds in 1655. There used to be a Gilded Ashoka Pagoda () and 500 arhats statues () but some of them were destroyed afterwards.