Fuyan Temple, Buddhist temple in Nanyue District of Hengyang, Hunan Province, China

Fuyan Temple is a Buddhist temple on Mount Heng in Nanyue District, Hengyang, Hunan. It was founded in 567 as Bore Temple and renamed Fuyan during the Song dynasty. The complex has over ten halls, including the Shanmen, the Hall of the Holy Emperor of Mount Heng, the Mahavira Hall, the Abbot's Room, the Dharma Hall, the Zushi Hall, the Zangjing Ge, the Meditation Hall and the Huayan Pavilion. The Mahavira Hall, the fourth hall, enshrines Shijiamouni, Amituofo and Yaoshi, with the Eighteen Arhats along the side walls.

The temple was founded in 567 by Nanyue Huisi as Bore Temple. In 713 Nanyue Huairang became its abbot. During the Taiping Xingguo period, Emperor Taizong of Song inscribed the name Fuyan Temple. The local government rebuilt it in 1870, and in 1983 it was designated a National Key Buddhist Temple in Han Chinese Area.

The name Fuyan dates from the Taiping Xingguo period of the Song dynasty, when Emperor Taizong of Song inscribed and honoured the temple with this title, which has been kept ever since. The temple was founded in 567 as Bore Temple by the monk Nanyue Huisi, who taught the Lotus Sutra there. In 713 the monk Nanyue Huairang arrived and became abbot, linking the site to the early Chan lineage.

Fuyan Temple stands on Mount Heng in Nanyue District, Hengyang, Hunan. Its more than ten halls are arranged in sequence, with the Hall of Holy Emperor of Mount Heng as the third hall and the Mahavira Hall as the fourth. The grounds lie deep among dense woods and tall bamboo, and a stone well with "Tiger Running Spring" carved on its wall sits east of the temple.

The temple keeps four old ginkgo trees, one of them about 1400 years old, so it predates the 1008 renaming recorded in Song sources. The grounds also hold the Three-Life Pagoda on the rock outside the halls and the Shijing spring, whose well wall carries the inscription "Tiger-Running Spring" (虎跑泉).