Sutra Pavilion

The Sutra Pavilion of Shaolin Temple, also known as the Dharma hall, is located on the central axis behind the main hall of Shaolin Temple. It is a place for eminent monks to preach scriptures and store Buddhist classics.

In the Sutra Pavilion of Shaolin Temple, there were more than 5000 volumes of Buddhist scriptures, including the Ming Dynasty Sutra. In 1928, the hall was burned by Shi Yousan. The Scriptures, martial arts books, and Dharma shadow stone were destroyed. Only 14 stone pillars were left on the foundation and wall of the hall. There are tens of thousands of Chinese classics, dragon collection, Dazheng collection, Koryo collection and other classics in the Sutra Pavilion of Shaolin Temple. According to the inscriptions, the pavilion was founded in the Zhizheng period of the Yuan Dynasty (1341-1368). The present Sutra pavilion was redesigned and built on the original site from 1992 to 1993 based on the data before the destruction.

Sutra Pavilion

Z à ng Sutra Pavilion, also known as FA Tang, is the place where the temple talks about scriptures.

For example, when the Sutra Pavilion of Shaolin Temple was built in 1735 A.D., the original Sutra pavilion was transferred to the Dharma hall, so the Dharma hall is also known as the "Sutra Pavilion". The original building was destroyed in 1928 and rebuilt in 1993.

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Songshan Shaolin Sutra Pavilion

According to the TA Ming, the FA Tang of Shaolin Temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty (about 1345 A.D.). After the Ming Dynasty Yongle Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi Dynasty, every repair.

In the 13th year of Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty, Shaolin Temple was built, and the FA hall was renovated into a five Ying hall, which contained 5480 volumes of the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty's Tripitaka, including the shadow stone of Dharma's face wall, the secret collection of Shaolin boxing manual, the bronze version of the Ming Dynasty's Tripitaka, the boxing manual, and the woodcut version of Shaolin Temple annals.

In 1928, Shi Yousan of the national army set fire to Shaolin Temple, Fatang and its storage, all of which were destroyed by "fire disaster".

Now the hall for white marble Reclining Buddha, 7 meters long, weighing 16.5 tons, Dharma phase solemn, peaceful.

The East and west wall Scripture cabinets store the Chinese Tripitaka, Dunhuang Tripitaka, new Japanese Tripitaka, Koryo Tripitaka, Buddhism, Shaolin martial arts and other classics.

The Sutra Pavilion is located behind the main hall.

The Sutra Pavilion, also known as Fatang, was built in the Ming Dynasty. It was destroyed in 1928 and rebuilt in 1994. It is the place for monks to collect sutras.

There are eight million volumes in the Sutra collection Pavilion. This is the place where monks and monks collect sutras. It is a white jade Buddha statue presented by a Burmese disciple of Shaolin Temple in 1996.

There is a big iron pot under the platform of the Sutra Pavilion. It was made in the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty. It was a small pot used by Shaolin monks to fry vegetables at that time. To the southeast of the Sutra Pavilion is the Buddhist chamber, where monks meditate. To the opposite is the Western Buddhist chamber, where guests are received

On the east side of the channel under the platform of the Sutra Pavilion, there is a big iron pot, weighing 1300 Jin. It was made in the fourth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1576 AD). It is said that it was used for cooking in the heyday of monks.

It is enough to imagine that in its heyday, there were many monks and incense.

In front of the Sutra Pavilion, there is a large stone mill. It was made in 1564 A.D. in the 43rd year of Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty. It was used by monks to grind noodles. It is said that it can grind more than 1000 Jin of wheat every day.

There are many inscriptions in front of the Sutra Pavilion, which is one of the characteristics of Shaolin Temple's "three many" (many steles, towers and murals).

Nanjing Zhongshan Sutra Pavilion

Also known as Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. It is located in the vast forest between Zhongshan Mausoleum and Linggu Temple in Zhongshan scenic area. It was founded by the Chinese Buddhist Association in November 1934 and completed in October of the next year.

This building is specially built for the collection of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's articles, including the main building, monk's room and stele gallery. The main building is a palace style building, and it looks like a temple building. It has three floors. The ground floor is the lecture hall, and there are listening seats in the sandwich building. The second floor is the Sutra collection, reading and research room. The third floor is the Sutra collection room.

In the back of the building, there is an ambulatory building, 125 meters long. The wall is inlaid with inscriptions on the full text of the theory of "three principles of the people" donated by general Feng Yuxiang. There are 138 pieces of six lectures of the Communist Youth League, totaling more than 155000 words.

Each lecture was written by the calligraphers at that time, such as Zhang Naigong, Chen Tianxi, Lian Shenghai, Li Qichen, ye gongchuo, Zheng Hongnian, Chen Zhongjing, Cai Yun, Hu Di, Peng Jiushi, Wang Yihan, Li Xuanti, Wang Xian and Deng caiweng. It is a group of precious cultural relics with excellent calligraphy and carving.

Shanxi Mianshan Sutra Pavilion

It is the largest library on Mianshan mountain. There are Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist Scriptures, literary, historical and philosophical classics in it.

Among them, there are important documents such as daozang, Mao Zedong's comments on the twenty four histories and the whole Tang Dynasty literature, as well as academic works in many categories of Chinese culture, such as gold and stone, painting, calligraphy, architecture and sculpture, which are worth more than millions of yuan.

The stone inscriptions under the windowsill are Taoist Qingjing Jing Jing, Buddhist Jingang Jing, Confucian Shangshu and Yan's family precepts, which are very precious.

Nanyue Hengshan Sutra Pavilion

Sutra Pavilion (also known as Sutra Hall): it is one of the "four wonders of Nanyue". Located at the foot of Xiangguang peak in Nanyue, it was built in the second year of Guangda (568 A.D.) of emperor Chen Fei of the Southern Dynasty, formerly known as "little Prajna Zen forest".

Later, because Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, gave him a "Tripitaka", it was renamed the Tripitaka hall.

The temple was rebuilt in 1933. It is an ancient building with glazed tiles, red walls and single eaves. The temple is unique, rigorous, simple and elegant, just like a pearl embedded in the forest.

It was renovated in the 1980s. The hall was painted and painted with exquisite craftsmanship. The sculpture added was vivid.

In particular, the gold and copper Buddha statues presented by Mr. Huang zhangren and his wife, Ms. Ouyang Hui, a Thai Chinese, in the autumn of 1980, with the name of "piluzhana", pure copper plated, beautiful and dazzling, add a new color to Nanyue cultural relics.

Around the Tibetan scripture hall, the soil is thick and deep, warm and humid. There are many precious trees, such as Tilia amurensis, duying, "houai", Castanopsis eyrei, Torreya grandis, and so on.

Among the amazing trees are the money tree, the same root tree and the LIANLI branch tree.

There are also many legends about the historical sites of the Sutra hall. There is a spirit field in front of the hall. Every autumn night, the light flies like a candle, which can see the outline of the ancient Hall of Laolin. It is suspected that the "spirit light of Lu hall" is actually caused by fireflies dancing and shining, which is also called "firefly pilgrimage". There is a dressing table in front of Lingtian, which is said to be the dressing place of Princess Chen, the mother of King GUI of Ming Dynasty. There is also Diaoyutai nearby, which is said to be the fishing place of Zhang Lihua, empress Chen's concubine in the Southern Dynasty.

Address: Shaolin Temple, Dengfeng, Henan

Longitude: 112.94181

Latitude: 34.506044

Tour time: half an hour

Traffic information: the scenic spot is located in the Shaolin Temple scenic spot, which is not big enough to walk to;

Battery car: 10 yuan / person

Ticket information: included in the ticket of Shaolin Temple

Opening hours: 8:00-17:00

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