Yi Yi Temple

The temple was founded in 1984. Its main advocate is dancuozhuoma, also known as gangrikanzhuoma, which means "Snow Mountain kongxingmu". It is a female living Buddha. A and B temple covers a small area, and the Thangka hanging in zhuanjing hall is one of its features. There is a tall open cast bronze and gold-plated Buddha statue in the temple, which is said to be the largest future Buddha (Maitreya Buddha) statue in Tibetan Buddhism. The height of the Buddha is 28 meters, and the whole Buddha statue is resplendent, magnificent, lofty, solemn and sacred. Facing north and south, the Buddha statue stands at the foot of saiqing holy mountain (Nanshan, Qinghai) in Longbao with the idea and visual impact of giant. It is said that after the statue of Buddha was cast, auspicious omens appeared here many times, and the water level of Qinghai Lake rose for the second time in 50 years, which shows the Buddha's protection of the holy lake and brings auspicious happiness to the area around the lake.

Yi Yi Temple

The first and second temple (ར3938;\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\a and B village, 27 kilometers northwest of Daotanghe Town, Gonghe County, Hainan Province, is called a and B temple for short. This is one of the post stations where the Panchen Lamas of the past dynasties went to and from Tibet to the mainland to have a rest. It is one of the six major temples of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It belongs to the Labrang temple, and is known as the first temple of the Gelug Sect in the area around the lake.

The process of temple construction

The temple was founded in 1980, and its main advocate, the female living Buddha dancizhuoma (དམ་ཚིགསྒྲོ཯མམ), was the first living Buddha in the temple. The name of the living Buddha is "gangrikanzhuoma" (གས་ིིིམཟའའའྲོ་མ), which means "Snow Mountain kongxingmu". It is identified as the reincarnated Lingtong of the fifth gangrikanzhuoma by araochang, the living Buddha of Longwu temple in Huangnan Prefecture. In 1980, the tenth Panchen Lama decided to build a temple here. It was approved to open in 1988, when there were 40 monks. The current abbot of a and B temple is the 13th Zaba losangle Jianshen living Buddha. The picture shows the 10th Panchen Lama, who also inscribed a plaque "miraculous liberation Island" for the temple.

Architectural features

A and B temple is located on the South Bank of the famous Qinghai Lake, at the foot of Longbao Saiqin holy mountain, covering an area of 500 mu. The temple is close to the mountain and the lake. From the temple to the north is Qinghai Lake. As an important scenic spot of Qinghai Lake scenic area, a and B temple has been the route of the ancient South Silk Road and the Tangfan ancient road since ancient times, as well as the necessary place of Qinghai Tibet and Huanhu road.

Main buildings

Mani Hall (mani Hall) houses mani scriptures opened by the 10th Panchen master himself. In addition to the six character proverbs, the Sutra tube of Mani hall also contains the Dharma body relic, Dharma clothes, longevity Sutra, Vajrayana Sutra, Buddha top big white umbrella cover Dharma Sutra and other important scriptures of many eminent monks. Since 1985, 300 local villagers in village a and B have been turning mani Sutra tube day and night for 11 years, and some auspicious signs such as manna appeared on the tube.

The great Sutra Hall (འད་ཁང་ཆེནམོ) was renovated in 2017. It is a brick and wood structure building. The temple name "magic liberation Island" inscribed by the 10th Panchen master is hanging here. On both sides of the Sutra hall, there are eight bronze gilt statues of Bodhisattvas. The main Dharma association is the "April Dharma Association" from the first day of April to the first day of may in the lunar calendar. The rest of the Dharma associations are the same as the Gelug monastery.

Wenchang Imperial Palace (ཡུ་཯ྷའི་ཁ་།) is located opposite mani hall and Sutra hall. Wenchang emperor is the patron saint of ancient Chinese scholars, articles and imperial examinations, and is also full of fragrance in Tibet.

Maitreya (Maitreya) is the largest future Buddha (Maitreya) statue in Tibetan Buddhism, and the largest open-air bronze plated Buddha statue in Asia. The Buddha statue, 28 meters high, was built in 1995 and opened on July 11, 2006. After the Buddha statue was opened, auspicious signs appeared many times, and the water level of Qinghai Lake rose for the second time in 50 years.

Qianzun Buddha's mother hall was started in 2008 and completed in 2011. The first and second floors of the hall are surrounded by 21 Tara and 1000 Green Tara statues, and the first floor is in the middle of the hall with Green Tara (5.3 meters high). There are many murals in the temple of Buddha mother. The first floor consecrates the Dharma protector Shan Jian, naruokaju, heifuru, Shengle, four armed Manjusri, wisdom, auspicious, blue, red, guluguli, and white umbrella covered Buddhas. The second layer consecrates: Miaoyin tiannv, Manjusri Bodhisattva, zongkaba master, tunmi sambuza, pharmacist and eight Buddhas. The third level is consecrated as follows: longevity three, thirty-five Buddha, Vajrayana hand Bodhisattva, Shilun Vajra, Gelug conversion realm, Maitreya conversion realm, wisdom three. The third floor of the Buddha's mother hall is the hall of the Buddha, which is composed of Vajra of Daweide, Vajra of Shengle and Vajra of Huanxi.

The golden body pagoda (སྐུ་གདུངམཆོདརྟེན) was started in 2010, and the Kaiguang Law Conference was held on August 6, 2014. Female living Buddha dancizhuoma passed away on April 9, 2010. Zaba living Buddha built a gold body pagoda for her in the northeast of Maitreya Buddha. The pagoda is 13.9 meters tall. On the front of the pagoda is a statue of the mother of Sphinx Buddha, which is the incarnation of the mother of snow mountain. The whole body of the tower is pasted with silver, decorated with copper, silver and gold, and surrounded by 112 warping tubes. On the right side of the pagoda, there is a row of earth houses where the living female Buddha lived. In those days, she went to see the believers.

Historical evolution

A and B temple is only a mountain away from the famous Yanghua temple in history. A and B temple is on the north side of Longbao Saiqin mountain, while the site of Yanghua temple is on the south side of Longbao Saiqin mountain. In May 1578, the third Dalai Lama suonanjatso met with Mongolian atakhan in Yanghua temple, which opened the history of Mongolian believing in Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. This is the famous BASBA meeting in history.

traffic

Xining is 144 kilometers away from Gonghe County, the capital of Hainan Province. There are passenger buses to Gonghe every day at Xining coach station.

Best travel time

It's better to choose summer and autumn from May to September. It's not as windy as spring, it's not as cold and long as winter. There's no wet and rainy in late autumn, only warm and cool time and natural scenery!

Address: agricultural point of a and B village, 27 km northwest of Daotanghe Township, Gonghe County, Hainan Province

Longitude: 100.71015167236

Latitude: 36.512302398682

Traffic information: Xining long distance bus station every day to the Republic of the passenger shuttle bus, or charter to go.

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