Liaoning 遼寧

Liáoníng 遼寧 Other names include: Liáo 遼 (abbreviation)

Nearby Locations: Héběi 河北 province Inner Mongolia 內蒙古 Jílín 吉林 province Korea 韓國 Important Cities: Dàlián 大連 Cháoyáng 潮陽

Northeast China Region

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Liáoníng 遼寧 is a province in northeast China. Established as Fèngtiān 奉天 province in 1907, the present name was adopted in 1929.

Important Buddhist Sites

• Wànshòu Temple 萬壽寺
  • The Wànshòu Temple Buddhist Seminary 萬壽寺佛學院 was run here in the late 1910s and 1920s

Other Notes

• Before his ordination, Tánxū 倓虛 ran a pharmacy in this province in the early 20th century