Jianfu Temple, Buddhist temple in Beilin District, China

Jianfu Temple is a Buddhist temple in northwestern Xi'an featuring several important structures arranged within its grounds. The complex includes the Mahavira Hall for worship, the Compassion Pavilion, and a repository for Buddhist scriptures, alongside the Small Wild Goose Pagoda which rises from the courtyard.

Jianfu Temple was converted from the residence of Emperor Zhongzong in 684, 100 days after Emperor Gaozong's death, and named Xianfu Temple; Wu Zetian renamed it Jianfu Temple in 690. The monk Yijing translated scriptures here, and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda was built between 707 and 710 to hold Buddhist texts and relics brought from India. After the Huichang persecution and late-Tang wars, only the pagoda survived; the temple was rebuilt in the Ming dynasty, with a major reconstruction completed in 1449.

The monk Yijing translated Sanskrit scriptures here, and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda was built between 707 and 710 to hold the Buddhist texts and relics he brought back from India. In 710 the monk Sangha, venerated as an incarnation of Eleven-Faced Guanyin, died at the temple, and Emperor Zhongzong ordered a stupa built and his body lacquered.

Jianfu Temple stands at West Youyi Road outside the south gate of Xi'an, within the Xi'an Museum grounds. The main buildings run from south to north: the Mountain Gate, Cishi Pavilion, Mahavira Hall, Drum and Bell Towers, and Scripture Library. The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is part of the same complex.

The bell in the Bell Pavilion was cast in 1192, during the Jin dynasty, weighs 8,000 kilograms and carries more than a thousand engraved characters. Soldiers quartered in the temple during the Republican era cracked it, silencing the "Morning Bell of Goose Pagoda"; the relics office welded the crack in 1993, and a new bell was forged in 1998 for visitors to strike. A small iron bell of 1494 hangs on a frame beside the pavilion.