Miaozhan Temple, Buddhist temple in Guandu District, China

Miaozhan Temple is a Buddhist temple in Guandu Old Town featuring multiple courtyards and meditation spaces arranged in traditional Chinese architectural style. The complex includes various halls of different sizes that surround central courtyards, providing spaces for prayer, teaching, and daily monastic activities.

Miaozhan Temple was first built in 1290, the 27th year of the Yuan Zhiyuan era, and completed in 1295; after collapsing from flooding, it was moved to its present site in 1325. In 1458 two brick pagodas were added inside the gate and a stone Vajra throne pagoda outside it. The surviving buildings were restored in 2002, and in 2008 the temple was placed under the management of Shaolin Temple.

Locals call the east pagoda the "Golden Rooster Pagoda" because four bronze garudas, known in Chinese as "golden roosters", once stood at its corners; the present figures were added in 1957. The pair of pagodas gave Guandu one of its Eight Scenes, "a brush writing the sky", seen when their shadows moved on winter and autumn nights. Since 2008 the temple has been managed by Shaolin monks as part of "Guandu Shaolin Temple".

The temple is accessible by multiple bus routes connecting to downtown Kunming, with the journey taking around thirty minutes from the city center. Wear comfortable shoes as the grounds include several courtyards and staircases to navigate.

The east pagoda, a 13-storey square brick tower, leans: in October 2024 the Guandu district cultural relics bureau measured a tilt of 1°45′7″, with the top displaced 0.51 m west and 0.09 m north of the base centre. Bronze garudas, called "golden chickens" locally, stand at its corners; the present ones were added in 1957.