Langzhong Great Buddha Temple

The Great Buddha Temple is located at the foot of the statue mountain on the other side of the Jialing River. The main scenic spot is the statue of Sakyamuni.

There is a stone Buddha sitting and throwing on the back of the Great Buddha Temple. The whole statue is thick and short in proportion, but it is still magnificent and powerful. It has the charm of traditional religious stone carving art.

There are 24 stone carvings of Tang, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, one tomb with five caves carved on cliff, and more than 10 unrecognizable weathered cliff carvings. Among the cliff stone inscriptions, the existing imperial edicts and inscriptions by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty are especially precious.

Langzhong Great Buddha Temple

Langzhong is rich in natural landscape. As early as 1300 years ago, it won the reputation of "langyuan fairyland" and "Langzhou is the best in the world". The mysterious and deep Buddhist resort Dafosi scenic spot is a combination of natural scenery, places of interest, religious culture and Chinese legends. It is very attractive to tourists of different cultural levels. It would be a pity not to go to the Great Buddha Temple in Langzhong.

Langzhong Great Buddha Temple

Great Buddha Temple

Located in the southeast of Langzhong and on the opposite bank of Jialing River, the statue mountain was originally named as the statue temple. In Song Dynasty, it was named Yong'an Chan. In Ming Dynasty, it was restored to its old name, commonly known as the Dafosi temple. The temple covers an area of 6 hectares, and its main scenic spot is the Buddha, the statue of Sakyamuni.

Giant Buddha

There is a stone throwing Buddha sitting on the back of the temple. It was carved by he Jushi of Langzhong in the late Tang Dynasty and the early years of Dezong. It is a sitting statue of Sakyamuni. He is 9.88 meters high; his head is in a bun, two or nine meters long and two meters wide, which is rectangular; the Buddha is wearing a gilded fairy suit, with bare chest and smooth pleats; his barefoot is 1.8 meters long, and he steps on the lotus; his left hand covers his knees, his right hand bends forward, and his middle finger and thumb are slightly pinched; he has a pair of Phoenix eyes with drooping eyelids, high nose and big ears, and his lips are slightly closed. The proportion of the whole statue is short and thick, but it is still magnificent and powerful, which has the charm of traditional religious stone carving art. The hall is full of solemn atmosphere; on the top of the Buddha statue, there is a three-story attic with a flying eaves and a top tile. Zhongge is the supreme empress Jade Emperor (jade emperor) of the Taoist God Haotian Jinque. The Jade Emperor is here to rest. So huiluan Temple got its name. At the foot of the Great Buddha, there is a offering table with many offerings. In front of the offering table is a large red futon, and behind the right table is a monk. Further on, it is separated by red strips, and ordinary people can't wait to enter. On the left, there is a box for those believers to give alms. There are three smaller futons in the middle. Most pilgrims can only kneel down here. If you have many merits and virtues, you can go inside, kneel down and offer incense. The monk next to you can knock wooden fish and recite scriptures. It seems that the paradise can not be separated from the secular hierarchy. There is a well in front of the Buddha. The water is clear and sweet. Buddhist monks respect it as holy water. The main hall is 15 meters wide and 10 meters deep. It is a place for monks to chant sutras, say and do Buddhist things. According to the records of the stone wall stele and the Tongchuan Prefecture's newly revised Fu Zhi, the Great Buddha was built in Dade period of the Yuan Dynasty. In order to explain the doctrines and promote the Buddhism, the Buddhists in the county chiseled it here, and it has been around 700 years. The stone statue is Maitreya Buddha, ranking first in the county. According to the Buddhist theory of "three Buddhas", there are three kinds of Buddhas: the past Buddha lights the lamp, the present Buddha Sakyamuni and the last Buddha Maitreya. According to the Sutra of Maitreya's lower life: "Maitreya originally came from the Brahman family, later was a disciple of the Buddha. He chose the Buddha to be exterminated. He was born in the inner Temple of Toulu. He was 4000 years old (equivalent to 5.70 billion years old in the world) and became a Buddha under the Longhua tree in Hualin garden. The chubby Maitreya, which is often worshipped in some temples, is actually the embodiment of the" Qi "monk in the Five Dynasties.

According to the inscription on the inner wall of the cliff niche (K ā n), which was written in 809, the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, why was the Buddha engraved by the hermit. With a history of 1100 years, it is one of the top ten sitting Buddhas in Sichuan. According to the records, he originally lived at the foot of Panlong mountain on the other side of the elephant mountain. Because there were some immortal activities on the stone wall on the south bank, he resolutely abandoned his family's Centennial career and moved here. It has been more than 20 years since I carved the cliffs. Later, Sui built a sutra house and planted many trees, thus creating a quiet land with deep bamboo forest and many floors. On one side of the Sutra cottage, there is a line of more than 160 steps of ladder. Although I don't know what he Jushi thought about it, it's really a hard road for ordinary people who don't have fairies.

The big Buddha is protected by triple eaves, which is called the big Buddha Temple, also known as the big statue temple. In the first year of Longde (921) of the Five Dynasties, more than 4000 small Buddhas with a height of 10.2 cm were carved behind the big Buddha. They were arranged in order and the craftsmanship was excellent. In the eighth year of Yuanfeng, Emperor Shenzong of Song Dynasty (1085), he made up the large and small Buddha statues. In the second year of Huizong of Yuan Dynasty (1336), the Buddha was pasted with gold body. In the second year of Yongxi reign of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty (985), when the Qianbu HUAFA Sutra collection building was built, the great Buddhist temple was named Yong'an temple. In the second year of Chongning (1103) of Huizong, the Yongan temple was changed to Fuchang Temple because of the conflict between Yongan temple and royal Yongan mausoleum. In Ming Dynasty, it was called Da Xiang temple, also called Da fo temple. However, since the gold cup of Buddha was stolen and peeled in the Republic of China, most of what we see today is the true color of the cliff. In order to preserve these rare cultural relics, the newly built Great Buddha Temple is built above the top of the cliff, and the stone carvings of the Great Buddha and the cliff statues on both sides are well protected. After all, if we take it lightly, we will have a long future. Through many vicissitudes of history, the Qing Dynasty alone has had one repair and one destruction. The existing temple was built in 1991 On the contrary, the major inscriptions are old things.

There are two statues of Guanyin beside the Buddha: one is Nanhai Guanyin, and the other is Songzi Guanyin. There are two niches in the grottoes on the right side of the Buddha. There are five statues on the cliffs of the Tang and Song Dynasties and one Sutra building. There are also 24 stone carvings of the Tang, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and one tomb with five caves on the cliffs. There are more than 10 unrecognizable weathered cliff carvings, extending more than 150 meters. Among the cliff stone inscriptions, the existing imperial edicts and inscriptions by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty are especially precious. "Imperial edict" is the emperor's order, "die" refers to the document; "imperial edict" is the imperial edict issued by the emperor. This imperial edict, which changed "Yong'an Chan yuan" into "Fuchang yuan", was carved on the stone wall on the right side of the Buddha as it was. It is still very rare. In addition, on the cliff on the left side of the Great Buddha Temple, there are two big characters "Huxi" in regular script, each of which is 5 meters long and 4 meters wide. It is magnificent and vigorous, and it is "the mother's benediction book of Shangzhu state's note to jinyubao for governing the river". It is said that Sun Simiao, a famous doctor of Tang Dynasty, came here to collect medicine and cure a sick tiger. This mountain stream was named "tiger stream". Now we have a pharmacist's temple as a memorial.

In addition, the Buddhist Sutra is located at the lower left side of the temple, which is the place where he Jushi used to worship Buddha.

Folklore

So the Great Buddha was able to camp in Panlong mountain. According to folklore, he, Laojun and zisu raced to Yuntai temple from the west to perform official duties. Because the rooster sang three times and zisu occupied Yuntai first, Laojun had to occupy eight holes, so the Great Buddha stopped on Panlong mountain. Buddha is not a person who can easily admit defeat. No one knows whether he is satisfied or not. As a matter of fact, in terms of geography and population conditions, he occupies a good place. It is connected to Niutou in the north, overlooking the printing box in the south, facing Fu and Kai, and overlooking the city of Zizhou. By the mountains and rivers, beautiful scenery, not Laojun, perilla land can compare.

The meeting time of Dafo Temple

Every year, the Dajue meeting on the eighth day of the second month of the Buddhist calendar is the most lively and important. Before the meeting, monks began to prepare half a year earlier. This is the unique meeting time of the Buddhist temple. It is said that this day is the day when the Buddha is finished and the veil is opened. It is not an ordinary day for the Great Buddha to go to the highest state of self-cultivation of Buddhism from "Dachen", "Dawu" to "Dajue". The second is the date of the birth of the eighth Buddha in April, the day of giving birth to monks on February 25th, the day of becoming Buddhists on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the day of entering Nirvana (i.e. death) on February 25th. At ordinary times, there are also good men and women to burn incense in the temple to fulfill their vows. After the yuan and Ming Dynasties, it is prosperous but not declining.

On the past and the present

Nevertheless, the Buddha also has unpredictable situation and inevitable "doom". It is said that in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, an earthquake occurred in Santai, and Panlong mountain landslide occurred. Warm soil, sand and stone covered the whole temple. It was not until the 52nd year of Qianlong's reign in Qing Dynasty that heavy rain caused a landslide that the Buddha came to light again. The scholars not only raised money to restore the Buddha statues and temples, but also built new temple groups on both sides of the hall, such as Guanyin hall, Luohan hall and five holy halls, where hundreds of clay Bodhisattvas received incense. In order to prevent the relief from sliding, the scholars planted trees on the top of the wall to keep the water and soil. The Great Buddha was blessed because of the disaster. So far, the Great Buddha Temple is unprecedented and popular. Scholars and poets go to the temple to chant poems. According to the annals of Santai County, Wu Liqing, a Qing Dynasty man, visited the Dafo temple and wrote a poem: "the mountain is full of cattle heads, the village is wide, the flower festival is near, and he is afraid of the cold of spring. The taste of the root of Brasenia schreberi startles Zhang Han, but the heart of taro fire is lazy. The ancient hall is dark and blue, and the fragrance of nuclear explosion is moving. Gold cloth to see the long feet, who believe that the ferry difficult. It is recorded in the poem that the great Buddhist temple has "deep shade in the ancient hall", green and bright red bars, paved with gold and full of incense. During the period of the Republic of China, most of the Buddhist activities were in the city to protect the holy temple, or the Qinquan temple in the north of the city. The great Buddhist temple was lack of repair, so the clay sculptures of the temple declined. In May 1986, Santai County Government issued an announcement that "Yuntai temple and Dafo temple are places for Taoist and Buddhist activities respectively, and they will be open to the public. And the temple, temple and cultural relics will be used and managed by Taoist and monks. The provincial and county governments allocated funds to move out the oil press factory in the temple. Restore the Buddha and repair the temple. In March 1987, the monk Rucai invited him to teach Baoguang temple

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