Pizhita

Pizhita

Located in the northwest of Mount Tai, in Lingyan temple, Wande Town, Changqing District, Jinan, the Pizhi pagoda was built in 753 A.D., rebuilt in 994 A.D., and completed in 1057 A.D.

Development history

The Pizhi pagoda was built in the 12th year of Tang Tianbao (753 AD), rebuilt in the 5th year of Emperor Taizong's Chunhua (994 AD), and completed in the 2nd year of emperor Renzong's Jiayou (1057 AD), which took 63 years to complete. It is an octagonal brick building with nine stories and twelve eaves. Pizhi pagoda is the main symbol of Lingyan temple, standing in the northwest of thousand Buddha Hall. The tower is 55.7 meters high and 48 meters long. It is made of brick and can be upgraded by steps. There are relief sculptures of torture scenes at the base of the tower and an iron brake at the top of the tower. The simple doors and windows, the varied eaves and the slender and straight body of the tower make people feel dignified and elegant without losing their exquisite skills.

The main feature of the Pizhi tower is that it has double eaves and belongs to the close eaves pavilion type. Its shape is peculiar, and the tower is different from top to bottom. The first to third floors are double eaves, and the fourth to ninth floors are single eaves. As a close eaves Pavilion structure, Pizhi tower is the only one in China, which may be the first example of close eaves Pavilion structure.

Many places of interest are full of beautiful and moving legends, such as the relief of "lotus in hell" and "the last Banan molefu", which reflect the political life of Ashoka.

According to the name of the tower, it was built for worshiping the Pizhi Buddha. Pizhita "pizhita" comes from Buddhism and is transliterated as "pizhijia Buddha", which is also called "pizhifo". Pizhita means pizhifo pagoda. Bizhi Buddha is transliterated in Sanskrit, which means "Jue" and "dujue". It is one of the three mahayanas (Sheng Wen Cheng, PI Zhi fo Cheng, Da Cheng). It refers to the saints who have no teacher but can consciously realize themselves. "The third parable of the Dharma Sutra" says: "if there are all living beings who listen to the Dharma and believe in it from the Buddha, who are diligent and diligent in seeking natural wisdom, who are happy and good at solitude, and who are well aware of the causes of all Dharma, they are famous Buddhists.".

At that time, some eminent monks would be regarded as Pizhi Buddhas, such as master miaokong Zhina during the song and Jin Dynasties. In the biography of Buxu eminent monk, it is recorded that when he was in Lingyan, Hu family, the great surname of Pingjiang, set up Dazhai, and all the senior people would live there. The night before, the dreamer told him, "in the Jichao Dynasty, there were people who came on horseback in yellow and brown, and they created a branch of Buddhism.". The dawn seeks for it, but the master is like a dream. Hu raised his room to greet him, and he was shocked. "

Main attractions

Bizhi tower is a brick building with octagonal, nine stories and twelve eaves. The tower is 55.7 meters high. The base of the tower is made of octagonal stone. There are relief carvings on it, engraved with stories about the conversion of Ashoka, the Peacock Dynasty of ancient India, to Buddhism. The body of the tower is built of green brick, with waist eaves on each floor, double eaves on the lower three floors, and flat seats under the eaves on the second to fourth floors. The eaves and diameter of the tower decrease from bottom to top, and the harvest is appropriate. The first to fourth floors of the tower are equipped with core columns, with a ticket hole inside. There are steps that can be picked up. From the fifth floor or above, the tower must turn left 90 degrees along the outer eaves of the tower wall to enter the upper door opening. The iron tower brake is set on the tower body, which is composed of covering bowl and dew plate, phase wheel, Baogai, Yuanguang, Yangyue and Baozhu. There are eight iron chains hanging down from the Baogai, and the eight iron vajras on the eaves corner of the ninth floor tower are taken over. They are extended to the underground in the tower and play the role of lightning protection. Pizhi pagoda is a landmark building of Lingyan temple, which is magnificent, beautiful, complex in structure and appropriate in proportion. It is a typical Song Dynasty style. Song Dynasty writer Zeng Gongyou wrote a poem praising that "the legal Zen house faces a steep valley and opens up a pagoda canopy.".

Tourism information

Pizhi pagoda is located in Lingyan temple, northwest of Mount Tai, in Wande Town, Changqing District, Jinan City. It is 45 km away from Jinan in the north and 25 km away from Tai'an in the south. National highway 104 and Beijing Fuzhou Expressway (with Lingyan Temple exit) pass through it,

Address: Wande Town, Changqing District, Jinan City

Post code: 250309

Address: Lingyan temple, Wande Town, Changqing District, Jinan City, Shandong Province

Longitude: 116.9831070412

Latitude: 36.362050716723

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