Nanjing 南京

Nánjīng 南京 Other names include: Jīnlíng 金陵; Jiāngníng 江寧; Tiānjīng 天京

Nearby Locations: Mǎānshān 馬鞍山 Zhènjiāng 鎮江 Yángzhōu 揚州 Shànghǎi 上海

Jiāngnán 江南 Region

Article editor: Gregory Adam Scott

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Nánjīng 南京 was the capital of the Tàipíng state in the mid-nineteenth century, as well as the capital of the Nationalist government from 1928-1937.

Important Buddhist Sites

• The Jinling Scriptural Press 金陵刻經處 was established by Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 in 1866
  • The Jetavana Hermitage 祇洹精舍 was located on the grounds of the press from 1908 to 1910
• The Chinese Inner Studies College 支那內學院 was established by Ōuyáng Jìan 歐陽漸 and Lǚ Chéng 呂澂 in 1922
  • The college published the periodical Inner Studies 內學 here
• The Buddhist Normal School for Monastics 佛教師範僧學校 was founded here in 1910
• Línggǔ Temple 靈谷寺 was founded in the 6th century on Zǐjīn Mountain 紫金山
• Qīxiá Temple 栖霞寺 was founded in the 5th century and is situated 22 km. northeast of the city
• Pílú (Vairocana) Temple 毘盧寺 was founded in the late 19th century with the support of Zēng Guóquán 曾國荃, by expanding a small hermitage that had been on the site since the Jiāqìng 嘉慶 era (1796-1820)
• The Jiāngsū Saṇgha Normal Study Hall 江蘇僧師範學堂 was located here between 1909 and 1911

Other Notes

• Karl Ludvig Reichelt 艾香德 ran a Christian mission to Buddhists here in the 1920s
• Yuèxiá 月霞 was tonsured here in 1876
• Zōngyǎng 宗仰 died at Qīxiá Temple 栖霞寺 in 1921
• Tāng Yòngtóng 湯用彤 taught here in the 1920s

References and Resources

• Map of Nánjīng, 1912, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
• U.S. Army Map Service map of Nánjīng, 1945, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin (warning - large file)