Yunnan 雲南

Yúnnán 雲南 Other names include: Diān 滇, Yún 雲 (abbrebiations)

Nearby Locations: Guǎngxī 廣西 province Guìzhōu 貴州 province Laos 寮國 Myanmar 緬甸 Sìchuān 四川 province Tibet 西藏 province Vietnam 越南

Southwest China Region

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Yúnnán 雲南 is a province in the extreme southwest of China.

Important Buddhist Sites

• Chicken-Foot Mountain 雞足山
• Ganden Sumtseling Monastery 松赞林寺

Other Notes

• While still a layperson, Nénghǎi 能海 taught at a military school here from 1909 to 1910
• Bǎojìng 寶靜 lectured in this province in the early 1930s
• The Hóngfǎ shèkān 弘法社刊 was published here from 1932 to 1937