3 Days Mount Emei Buddhist Pilgrimage Tour
Seeking Brightness and Happiness
Seeking Brightness and Happiness
Known as one of China’s Four Sacred Buddhist Mountain and the ashram for Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (the place of enlightenment), Mount Emei has been a lodestone to Buddhist pilgrims for centuries. It played a vital role during the development of Buddhism in China. It is said the Buddhism was introduced into China in the 1st century CE via the Silk Road from India to Mount Emei, and the first Buddhist temple in China was built at the Golden Summit of Mount Emei, and then the Buddhism spread widely through the East.
This 3 days Buddhism itinerary, with Buddhist essence of Mount Emei covered, is especially designed for Buddhist followers or travelers who are interested Chinese Buddhism. You will firstly pay a pilgrimage to the World Heritage Site Leshan Giant Buddha – a huge statue of Maitreya Buddha, and then explore most spiritual Buddhist temples (like Baoguo Temple, Fuhu Temple, Qingyin Pavilion, Huazang Temple, etc.) hidden in lush forest of Mount Emei. Beyond its rich Buddhist heritage, Mount Emei also perches on the edge of Himalayan Kingdoms which make it a land of diversity. The stunning natural scenery will be an added bonus during your sacred journey among these Buddhist sites.
China Discovery's exclusive offer: we can make an appointment with the abbot of Huazang Temple at Golden Summit to open a lecture of Buddhism for you if the abbot is available. If you want to experience the lecture, you are required to make early booking and leave us at least a month to prepare.
Day 1 Chengdu - Leshan - Mount Emei (L)
Highlights of today: Leshan Giant Buddha, Dofo Temple
In the morning, you will be picked up at your hotel, and then be driven about 2 hours from Chengdu to pay a pilgrimage to the 1300-year-old and 71-meter-tall Leshan Giant Buddha which is the world's largest and tallest stone-carved statue of Buddha. This magnificent statue, depicting a seated Maitreya Buddha, as constructed to calm the turbulent waters that plagued the shipping vessels and killed many people each year in ancient time. The construction started in 723 AD, led by a monk called Hai Tong. It took 90 years to finish the project. On the right cliff of the Giant Buddha, there is a plank road built along with the Giant Buddha. From the top to foot, the plank road has nine turns, thus it's called Nine Bends Plank Road. The widest part of the road is 1.45m and the narrowest part is only 0.6m, and there are 217 stone steps in total. You will walk down to the feet of the Giant Buddha for a closer worship.
After the Leshan Giant Buddha Visit, you will drive about a half hour to Emeishan and pay a religious homage to Dafo Temple, which holds various religious ceremonies to pray for individual health, social property and peace of the world every year. It is usually the first stop of many Mount Emei Buddhist trips. This temple has three areas, including Buddhist Worship area, Garden Area and Buddhist Education Area, combing the function of Buddhist educating, Buddhist research and promoting Buddhism. Spend some time worshiping the Buddha here in the temple, then drive to check in your hotel.
Note: These ceremonies usually take place in China's traditional festivals and Buddhist holy days, like the birthday, enlightenment day, and renunciation day of Buddha. Visiting Emei Mountain in the below listed date (based on Chinese Lunar calendar) gives you a bigger chance to join in a Buddhist ceremony:
Jan. 1 — Birthday of Maitreya Buddha & Chinese New Year Jan.15 - Chinese Lantern Festival Feb. 8 — Renunciation Day of Sakyamuni Buddha Feb. 15 — Mahāparinirvāṇa Day of Sakyamuni Buddha Feb. 19 — Birthday of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Feb. 21 — Birthday of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva April 4 — Birthday of Manjusri Bodhisattva April 8— Birthday of Sakyamuni Buddha June 19 — Enlightenment Day of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva July 30 — Birthday of Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha Sep. 19 — Renunciation Day of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Sep. 30 — Birthday of Bhaiṣajyaguru Buddha Nov. 17 — Birthday of Amitabha Buddha Dec. 18— Chinese Laba Festival
UNESCO World Heritage Site - Leshan Giant Buddha
Day 2 Mount Emei Pilgrimage (B, L)
Highlights of today: Baoguo Temple, Fuhu Temple, Qingyin Pavilion
This morning after breakfast, meet your tour guide and set out for Mount Emei pilgrimage. After the first Buddhist temple in China was built at the Golden Summit of Mount Emei, there has been up to 30 Buddhist temples established in different locations of the mountain over the centuries. Today you are going to worship four of the most influential temples of Mount Emei.
You will firstly visit Baoguo Temple, the biggest temple of Mount Emei at the mountain foot. It has several serene gardens with rare plants, a library of sutras and a huge porcelain Buddha. Another famous historical relic in the temple is the 25-ton bronze Bell, reputedly as the second largest bell in China. While traveling deeper into the temple, you will enjoy different views of Mount Emei. After Baoguo Temple, you will visit another famous temple – Fuhu Temple which is the largest nunnery in Mount Emei. Don't miss Arhat Hall which houses a magnificent four-face Buddha statue of the Arya Avalokiteshvara (Goddess of Mercy), surrounded by 500 Buddhist Arhats, all sculpted according to different traditional Chinese Buddhist figures. The 7-meter-high Huayan Pagoda is a must-see of Fuhu Temple as well. This copper pagoda is stamped with over 4,700 small Buddhist figures and inscribed with complete version of the Avatamsaka Sutra. Continue your journey and your next stop is Shenshui Pavilion where you can find many inscriptions from the poets and literary men. After that, hike to Qingyin Pavilion which is named after the natural music of the waters flowing around the rock formation. Qingqin Pavilion acts as the symbol of traditional Buddhist Garden and show the harmony between human and nature.
After worshiping these holy temples, you will take an Eco-bus back to tourist center and return to your hotel.
Day 3 Mount Emei - Chengdu (B, L)
Highlights of today: Golden Summit, Huazang Temple
After breakfast, You will first take your private car to the tourist center, then shift on to an Eco-Bus which will take you up to the mountain top area in 1.5~2 hours. Once you reach at Leidongping (2400m), keep on walking about 30mins along stone steps to the cable car station, along which you will have chance to see the wild monkeys. Take a cable car (about 5mins) up to the Golden Summit (3077m) which is the biggest highlight and very essence of Mount Emei. Once you get to the Golden Summit, the first view appearing in front of you is a towering multi-faced golden statue (48m) of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. Next to the golden statue sits the bronze Huazang Temple which is the first temple established on Mount Emei whose history can be traced back to 1st century CE. You can stroll around the Golden Summit to explore Buddhist architecture and tradition, and enjoy panoramic view of Mount Emei and surrounding. In clear days, you can even see the snow-clad of Mount Gongga (7556m), Asia’s largest table mountain - Wawu Mountain and winding rivers flowing through Emeishan city. If weather permits, you will have luck to enjoy its magnificent wonder of Cloud Sea.
China Discovery's exclusive offer: we can make an appointment with the abbot of Huazang Temple to open a lecture of Buddhism for you if the abbot is available. If you want to experience the lecture, you are required to make early booking and leave us at least a month to prepare.
Lastly, take a cable car back to Leidongping and take an Eco-bus to Wannian Temple Parking. Hike about 30mins to Wannian Temple, one of the six earliest Buddhist temples on Mount Emei. Built in East Jin Dynasty (265-420), this temple is sacred for housing a 7.35-metre (24.1 ft) high statue of Samantabhadra Buddha and three Buddhist treasures: the Wanli Golden Seal, tooth relic of the Buddha and palm leaf manuscript. After the worship, take a cable car down the mountain, then shift on to the eco-bus to the tourist center. Your driver is ready to transfer you back to Chengdu or to catch your flight/train to next destination.
Note: There are also several sacred Buddhist sites to worship in Chengdu, such as Wenshu Temple, Daci Temple, Zhaojue Temple and Baoguang Temple, etc.Feel free to contact us to extend your itinerary.
1. This price is for one person, based on a group of 2 adults sharing one standard double-bed room in 4-star hotel and traveling with our private tour in low seasons.
2. This price is subject to change according your traveling season, group size, hotel class, change of activities in your itinerary and possible fluctuation of currency exchange rate. If you want a lower price, you can get more people to join you, or use economy class hotels.
3. This price is only valid to March 31, 2025.
4. Reference exchange rate of USD 1=RMB 7.00. The final quote is based on current exchange rate. It may change according to the currency fluctuation, while the RMB quotation will be remained the same.
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The best experience ever!!!! I fell in love.
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Done it! As always it’s my pleasure to hire your company services, see you in the next adventure.
Emmy
Hi Rita,
Please kindly see the feedback below.
We are a family of 7. This private tour package definitely met our expectations! Both tour guides (Chengdu- MAY & Chongqing-DAVID) provided us a very good service, both friendly and very flexible despite the change in our tour schedules. They were also very responsible and ensured our safety, meals and transports were well taken care of, especially since we have elderly and kids in our group. Both tour guides are very fluent in English too so it is very convenient for some of the non-chinese speakers in our group.
We will look for the same tour agent again in our next trip to China!
Best Regards,
Victoria
Hi Shirley,
Thanks for the tour, and the itinerary that you planned for us was very comprehensive and detailed. We enjoyed it very much. The tour guide was also very friendly and experienced. He followed your itinerary closely and brought us to all the sites and explained in detail. He also recommended and brought us to enjoy some of the local cuisines during lunch.
Overall, we are impressed by the excellent service, reliability and quality that yourself, the tour guide and the driver has provided us. We would like to visit China again and we will not hesitate to engage your services again. Thank you!
Regards
Chun How
Hi Shirley,
I'm writing to provide some feedback on our recent Xian and Beijing trip that you put together for us.
We travel a lot, in the past year to Japan, New Zealand, China, Turkey, Africa, China, and finally this Xian/Beijing trip. I bring this up to highlight that we deal with a lot of travel professionals. You are easily the best travel professional we have dealt with through all of those trips. My wife, who happens to be Chinese asked me to make sure to keep your contact information for future China trips, with the intention of replacing the China based agent her brother usually uses for our trips.
Please let your manager know that we would probably not have used your company if not for you. Bamboo Travel is new to us and in a foreign country, so we had doubts as to what to expect. Your service was excellent from start to finish which really gave us confidence in your company. We had a little bit of an unusual itinerary and some constraints related to our other China travel prior to this tour. You were able to work through all of our issues with fast responses to our questions.
You also went what I would say was above and beyond expectations. The final example of that is a friend in the US was shipping some things to our hotel in Beijing for me to bring home to her. I contacted you to confirm the hotel name before they shipped the items, expecting I would then have to figure out the shipping details. Your reply not only confirmed the hotel, but you provided the shipping info in both English and Chinese, which saved me the hassle of trying to figure which address to use. Not a huge thing, but it's those small things that add up to a big difference in customer experience.
Thanks again for everything!
Xian:
Our guide was Waldner and we liked him from the start. We were just coming off another tour with another company which had maybe the best tour leader we've ever had. Even though we were always comparing Waldner measured up well. He was great at explaining the history of places we visited as well as answering our cultural questions. The restaurants/food were very good. He and the driver also modified the itinerary somewhat to optimize the driving based on our arrival and departure times and locations. We liked the hotel in Xian. The car (van) was very comfortable. Waldner also helped arrange tickets for a night show for us.
Beijing:
Pickup was great; even though we got in late the guide that picked us up was there and actually met us at the track. Cindy was our guide and we really liked her also. She is very knowledgeable and willing to answer (a lot of) questions. This was my 3rd time in Beijing and it was amazing what a difference having a good guide made. Cindy and the driver also modified the itinerary to optimize the driving. She also helped us book tickets to two shows, one of which was not on your list of optional items (Lao She tea house). Cindy was concerned about us ordering a cab so she stayed at the show to make sure we got back to our hotel ok. The restaurants/food were very good. The hotel was good but not great; for example we had hot water issues every day, and when I went to pick up a package that was shipped to me they just left me to dig through a pretty large pile of packages all addressed in Chinese.
To wrap up, I would rate the overall experience of looking for a trip, picking a company, and traveling 9.5 out of 10. Shirley, your service was 10 out of 10.
See you next trip!
Terry
Dear Rita,
Feedback.
The trip organised by Rita Jiang to Beijing and Xian was very well planned and enjoyable, showing the best of Chinese history, culture, heritage, and enormous progress.Your 2 guides, Linda Chua and Beryl are very good. Linda went out of her way to take us to Peking Opera at night. The kids were tired, so we did not go to Summer palace and Heavenly temple, and did not go to Xian Pagoda. It was our choice, so its ok. (I have been to all)
The 2 bus drivers were excellent, very careful, disciplined and good temperament and helpful. I could not give a tip to Beryl at Xian station, as I had to rush into toilet inside, and did not know she could not enter the train Station.
The pace was good, but the last day of train from Xian, to hotel (plus late dinner scrabbling in Beijing), then early next morning to airport was too Hectic. However, it was because we had to return on 8.12.24. we wish we could stay longer in Xian, and elsewhere. We could probably have gone to Xian by train, then fly back to Beijing by plane, but one way tickets could cost much more.
Anyway, thank you very much for all your fine arrangements. We all enjoyed the short trip.
For the kids, the major highlights were the Great Wall, Terracotta warriors, Acrobatic show. They will treasure. I will plan more trips for them to China.
Best wishes and warm regards,
Richard
excellent assistance, helpfulness and courtesy. My contact 'was Shirley, prepared friendly and punctual. Highly recommended...
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Baoguo Temple at the foot of Mount Emei
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Pilgrims whorshiped Samantabhadra Bodhisattva in Golden Summit
Wannian Temple in March
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