Luohan Temple

Most of the visitors to Luohan temple are attracted by the movie crazy stone. This millennium old temple is actually very small, but surrounded by many high-rise buildings in downtown area, it is a place of aloofness.

When you enter the gate, you can see many cliff carvings of the Song Dynasty. The most interesting thing is that there are 500 painted sculptures in Luohan hall, which are of different shapes, vivid and spectacular. There's also a large wishing light at the back door. Even if you do not enter, you can stop and look at the beautiful wood carving of the gate, or take a glimpse of Huang Bo's manhole cover in the film.

Luohan Temple

Luohan temple, originally named Zhiping temple, was built in the Zhiping period of Northern Song Dynasty (1064-1067). The temple was built for Luohan cave.

Luohan temple, recorded in the records of places of interest in Sichuan: "Zhiping temple There are Luohan cave and Xianxian cave, both ancient caves. " In 1752, the front hall collapsed and the temple was rebuilt. Later, it was also called Luohan temple and ancient Buddha rock.

Luohan temple, one of the key Buddhist temples in China, is a key cultural relic protection unit in China, and a resident of Chongqing Buddhist Association.

Brief introduction to temples

In 1885, Longfa monks rebuilt their temples and built Luohan hall in imitation of Baoguang temple, the new capital of China. In 1942, Luohan temple was destroyed by Japanese aircraft and then restored. During the "Cultural Revolution", all the statues of arhat were destroyed, and in 1984 the government allocated special funds to rebuild them. When it was first built, the historical site of Yuanchi is now in oblivion. Only the stele of "West Lake historic site" embedded in the "Ming stele Pavilion" can be discerned.

Buddhist facilities

The 20 meter long ancient Buddha rock in Luohan temple contains more than 400 stone sculptures of Buddha in Song Dynasty, including Reclining Buddha (commonly known as "Sleeping Buddha"), Avalokitesvara and donor statue. The style is quite similar to that of Baoding mountain in Dazu.

There are many Buddhist art treasures in the main hall, including 16 statues of Sakyamuni, the 16 best students of Sakyamuni, bronze statues of the "three saints of the west" in Ming Dynasty, jade Buddha of Sakyamuni in Burma, and Indian mural painting of Sakyamuni leaving the palace and becoming a monk.

Most of the Tripitaka, Sanskrit and Tibetan classics, as well as ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, are treasures of the Tang and Ming Dynasties. There are 524 clay statues in Luohan hall. Its delicate shape, realistic look, there are often good men and women here, silent number of Arhats to measure good or bad luck.

The landscape of Luohan temple in turn is the four heavenly kings' steles, ancient Buddha rock, Luohan hall, Maitreya Pavilion, Daxiong hall, sutra collection building, Abbot's room, Zen hall, etc.

There are 524 clay statues in Luohan hall. Its delicate shape, realistic look, there are often good men and women here, silent number of Arhats to measure good or bad fortune. In front of the temple, there is a stone tablet in 1623, which is engraved with the four characters of "West Lake historic site". The stone walls on both sides of the passageway inside the gate are called "ancient Buddha rock". They are more than 20 meters long, and there are many Buddha reliefs on them. They are municipal cultural relics protection units.

There are many Buddhist art treasures in the main hall, including 16 statues of Sakyamuni, the 16 best students of Sakyamuni, the bronze statues of the three saints in the West in the Ming Dynasty, the Jade Buddha of Sakyamuni in Burma, and the Indian mural "the picture of Sakyamuni leaving the palace and becoming a monk".

Major cultural relics

Luohan temple has a large number of scriptures, cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, including rare editions of Qisha collection and Pinjia collection. Most of the Tripitaka, Sanskrit and Tibetan classics, as well as ancient calligraphy and paintings, are treasures of the Tang and Ming Dynasties.

Layout structure

In front of the temple, there are four characters "Xichuan Buddha capital". The gate of the temple is tall, solemn and resplendent. "Luohan Temple" is hanging at the gate of the mountain. It is written by Ji Yingxiong, the governor of Chengdu before the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.

Entering the mountain gate is the heavenly king hall, and then there is a square made of bluestone. Maitreya Buddha (five meters high, carved in stone) sits alone in the center. Moving forward is Maitreya hall, next to which is a couplet: "smile when you open your mouth, smile at everything; if you have a big stomach, you can't tolerate it.". Its two corridors are the five hundred Arhats hall, and then the Great Buddha Hall.

There is a plaque in the center of the hall of Mahatma. On both sides of Sakyamuni's residence are Ananda and Kaya. In front of it is the saying hall, and behind it is the Sutra collection building (1076 Sutras in the temple, reaching 5048 volumes at its peak). On both sides are the eastern and Western abbots' rooms. On the left side of the main hall, there is a Zen hall that can hold hundreds of people to meditate and meditate, and a squatter room that can accommodate monks from all over the country; under the eastern Abbot's room, there is a storeroom, a fragrant kitchen, a studio and a guest hall.

There are four Buddhist halls in the temple, which are rectangular in structure, neat in construction, and made of wood and stone; the halls, pavilions and courtyards are beautiful and magnificent; the eaves of doors and windows, as well as columns, beams, Fang and caisson are more refined than the color paintings, which are lifelike. The layout of the whole temple is based on the structure and scale of Dalin temple in Nanchong, with overlapping pavilions, deep halls, high ridges and flying eaves. It is also set off by towering ancient cypresses and tall bamboo trees, which is very majestic and solemn.

Buddhist statues are exquisite and vivid. The four heavenly kings of the heavenly king hall are several meters high, each holding a Pipa sword, a snake in hand, an umbrella and a silver rat. The cloth bag monk in Maitreya hall has a big belly, and visitors touch him, but he laughs.

In the hall of arhat, there are five hundred Arhats with five hundred kinds of postures, which are lifelike and identical. Some are fat, some are thin, some are round, some are long, some are white, some are pale; some are smiling, some are tongue tied, some are singing, some are roaring There are those who focus on thinking, those who shout loudly, those who look up at astronomy, those who look down on the earth, those who have angry eyes, those who meditate in peace, those who listen attentively, those who want to argue, those who have long eyebrows, those who have short beard, those who attack wooden fish, those who shoulder Zen staff, those who hold dust in their hands, those who step on reed, and those who silently count beads Or sitting or standing or lying or leaning, or even folding clothes, stripes clear, no repetition. Five hundred Arhats, including all the smiles, all the actions, all the expressions, are real and natural, but not evil or ugly. Among them, the mad monk Jidian is more realistic: he wears a slanting palm hat, a patched monk's clothes, a pair of unprecedented Tianliang monk's shoes, a pair of drunken eyes, a wine pot in his left hand and a PU fan in his right hand. There is another one, holding the mirror in his left hand, tearing the old face of charity eyes in his right hand to form a seam, revealing a young face with beautiful features. This is the most profound one.

Ancient and modern humanities

In the Luohan temple, visitors can drink tea in the hall in front of the Luohan hall, where the plum blossom is hidden, and they can listen to the Scriptures in the shuotang. The Daochang of Luohan temple comes down in one continuous line with Mazu (called Mazu Daochang). Because Mazu fully implemented the characteristics of Zen Buddhism in his daily life, broke through the phenomenon of self intoxication and burnout of practitioners, and re oriented Zen Buddhism to the realistic position. The practical goal of Zen Buddhism is not asceticism, but in the extremely optimistic "happy way" life. Zen and wisdom, Zen and life are organically combined, which is respected by the Japanese Buddhist circles. The fast food in Luohan temple is also famous in Western Sichuan. At midday, visitors can go to the "wuguantang" for fast. Wuguantang is on the left side of the ancient temple. It is spacious and bright. It can accommodate 300 people to enter the temple at the same time. If tourists are lucky enough to catch up with Sakyamuni's Daoist day on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, they can enjoy the famous and unique Laba porridge of Luohan temple. This porridge was originally cooked for Buddha, but it was also provided to believers and tourists on this day. The monks cooked walnuts, peanuts, pine nuts, Lactobacillus, persimmon, chestnut, jujube, glutinous rice, soybeans, etc. with red and white sugar. The master of Tangju will certainly advise tourists to eat three bowls in a row to avoid three disasters. After dinner, you can walk around the temple again to see the inscriptions, plaques, couplets, as well as the inscriptions of celebrities of all ages. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Shi of Zhongshu was granted, Ma Zu TA Ming was written by Quan Dexing, a doctor of Jin Ziguang and Lu, and Luohan Temple remoulds 500 Luohan steles was written by Li Tiaoyuan, a scholar of Guangdong Province in the Qing Dynasty Ciyun, Yibo Xiangcheng, tipu solemnity, Nianhua Yixiao, Jiena Xumi and Zhiyuan Jiedi all contain endless Zen and deep meaning. One of the eight sceneries in Shifang, the "evening bell of Beisi", is a marvelous scene composed of crows flying around the temple at the place where the prayer bell starts at dusk. "The sound of the bell has spread beyond three thousand boundaries, and the Dharma has spread to all countries.".

Ups and downs

The rise and fall of Luohan hall reflects the prosperity and decline of Luohan temple from one side.

During the Anti Japanese War, in July 1940, Luohan temple was bombed by Japanese aircraft, and the temple was turned into scorched earth. Only dashanmen and ancient Buddha statues were left. Immediately, more than 20 monks braved the Japanese artillery fire and began to rebuild the Luohan temple and the Luohan hall in the ruins. By 1947, under the leadership of master Zongxian, the main hall, the Sutra library, the Luohan hall and the Mountain Gate archway were restored. During the cultural revolution, the red guards broke into the arhat hall and beat 500 Arhats to pieces. Even the base of the arhat statue was pried to pieces. At that time, what belief, what Buddhism, what sacredness, what history, what dignity were all subverted in the surging youth of the red guards. What's more, 500 sculptures that only represent a certain spiritual meaning were suddenly broken when the red guards set up the stairs to destroy the main hall. Someone and

Chinese PinYin : Luo Han Si