Shouliang Temple

Shouliang Temple

Shouliang temple is located near jianchunmen, Zhongshan Road, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. In front of it is the city wall of Song Dynasty. It was built in Houliang of Five Dynasties (907-923). It has a history of more than 1000 years.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Shouliang temple was destroyed by war. During the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1398), the monks rebuilt Rong'an and went through a lot of hardships. Xie Jin, a great scholar, wrote the inscription of Zhongxing stele of Shouliang temple and a brief account of rebuilding Shouliang temple, which is very precious.

Related history

1、 The construction of Shouliang temple has a legendary story

Lu Guanghou, the longest serving chief executive in the history of Ganzhou City (32 years), was a defense envoy in the Baisheng year of the Liang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties. Because he was trapped by the palace disease, Lu Guanghou asked a famous doctor, applied good medicine, bedded temple and divined, but there was no effect. So he asked the monk to cure him. Lu Guanghou was very grateful. He wanted to thank him with gold and silver, and Daocheng said with a smile: "get a cassock land That is to say, it is enough to give him a foothold in the temple! The forthright Lu Guanghou immediately donated his Dongzhai garden and sent people to build a temple, which was named "Luxing Yanshou" at first, and later changed to "Shengshou". In the Xiangfu period of Song Dynasty (1008-1016), it was renamed Shouliang temple.

2、 Many times by the blade of water and fire, but not perish! Many stories of repeated construction

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Shouliang temple was destroyed by war. During the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1398), the monks rebuilt Rong'an and went through a lot of hardships. Xie Jin, a great scholar, wrote the inscription of Zhongxing stele of Shouliang temple and a brief account of rebuilding Shouliang temple, which is very precious.

During the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1661), Hu Yousheng, the general town of nangan, also rebuilt it, which is worthy of admiration.

In Shouliang temple, there was a cast iron Buddha statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, which was donated by Lu Guanghou and was more than 6 meters high. It is the largest cast iron Buddha statue in Jiangxi Province.

The Fengshui pattern of Shouliang temple was in line with the guidance of Yang Gong's Fengshui theory, and Xunsi of Qianhai mountain died to Yihai and Dinghai.

Address: Zhongshan Road, Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province

Longitude: 114.949121482

Latitude: 25.861676148304

Tel: 0797-8351072

Chinese PinYin : Shou Liang Si