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It is located within Hudong Village of Heping Township, and is now the site of Hudong Primary School. According to the "Qingquan County Gazetteer: Records of Construction": "Hudong Temple is ten li east of the city, east of Ling Lake. In the early Dali era of the Tang Dynasty, Chan Master Fazhao settled here and established the Five Assemblies Buddha-Recitation Platform, with over a thousand resident monks." At the end of the Yuan and beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this temple was twice destroyed by war and twice restored. By the Shunzhi era of the Qing Dynasty, it still had four sections of halls and thirty monks' quarters. Now within the grounds of Hudong Primary School only ten stone pillars remain, along with two sets of stone-carved couplets. One reads: "A model for the southern state, it has already left its mark at Xiongxiang; only this eastern land once crossed the river from the Wild Goose Temple." There also remains one century-old ancient cypress and the ruins of an old opera stage.
