The Shen Tong Monastery was built during the early Eastern Jin dynasty (317-420), by a high-ranking monk named Lang Gong. A center of the Buddhist faith in the Shandong area, it survived the suppression of Buddhism in the Northern Zhou dynasty (557-581), and was renovated by the Emperor Wen Di of the Sui dynasty (581-617).
山東省神通寺啟建於東晉初葉，由高僧朗公和尚創建，原名朗公寺，是山東一帶的佛教中心。