Qinglong Temple, Buddhist temple in Yanta District, China

Qinglong Temple stands on the Leyouyuan plateau in Yanta District, Xi'an, on the site of the Tang-era temple confirmed by excavations from 1982. The rebuilt complex follows Tang-style architecture and holds the Huiguo-Kūkai Memorial Hall, donated from Japan, with a dark tiled hip-and-gable roof, red timber bracket sets against white walls, and a plaque reading "空海紀念堂". A stone balustrade and stairway flanked by two lions and two lanterns lead to the hall.

Founded in 582 as Linggan Temple under the Sui, it was renamed Qinglong Temple in 711 during the Tang. In the mid-Tang, the monk Huiguo taught esoteric Buddhism here, and the Japanese monk Kūkai studied under him before founding Shingon in Japan. Destroyed under the Northern Song, the site was identified by excavations from 1982 and partly rebuilt in Tang style.

The temple is linked to Kūkai, who studied under Huiguo here before founding the Shingon school in Japan; Ennin, Enchin and other Japanese monks also trained at Qinglong Temple. Since 1986 it has received over a thousand cherry trees from Japan, and from March to May visitors come to see them bloom. The monk Renjō Zennon of Zentsū-ji named it the zero-point temple of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage.

The site lies in Tielumiao Village, Dayanta Subdistrict, Yanta District, south of central Xi'an on the Leyouyuan plateau. The memorial hall and museum stand within the excavated temple grounds, with the cherry grove around them. The grounds are visited on foot, and the stone stairway at the hall entrance is the main step up to the doorway.

The name refers to the Azure Dragon from Chinese astronomy and mythology, one of four celestial creatures representing cosmic forces. This connection to mythology shows how Buddhist sites often integrate local cosmological beliefs into their naming and symbolic elements.