Sichuan 四川

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Sìchuān 四川

Other names include: Shǔ 蜀; Bā 巴; Szechwan, Szechuan (former romanizations)

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Sìchuān 四川 is a province in the southwest of China. The region provides a link to the western areas of Tibet, and temporarily hosted the wartime capital of the Republic of China during the Sino-Japanese war.

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Important Buddhist Sites

  • Zhōngfēng Temple 中峰寺, in Wēiyuǎn 威遠, the location where the periodical Pure [Land] School Monthly 淨宗月刊 was published 1948 - 1951
  • Sino-Tibetan Institute of the World Buddhist Studies Center 世界佛學苑漢藏教理院 located in Chóngqìng 重慶
  • Guishan University 龜山書院 in Nánchōng county 南充縣, established in 1927

Other Notes

Notes

  1. Chóngqìng was a separate municipality from 1929 to 1954, a status it has since regained.
  2. Though Dài usually identified himself more with his ancestral home of Húzhōu 湖州, Zhèjiāng 浙江

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