Qianming Temple

Qianming Temple

Qianming temple, located in Yangming Road, on the Bank of Nanming River, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, is an important place for Buddhist activities in Guiyang city. Both Guizhou Buddhist Association and Guiyang Buddhist Association are located in the temple. Qianming temple is one of the first batch of 142 national key temples announced by the State Council.

Qianming temple was built in the late Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. During the Xianfeng Period of the Qing Dynasty, Qianming temple was converted into Shu family ancestral hall. During the period of the Republic of China, master guangmiao moved here and became an important jungle.

Historical evolution

Qianming temple was built in the late Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the 36th year of Qianlong (1771). Xiandu Zen master was stationed here to spread Zen. During the war in the late Qing Dynasty, the living monks were separated and managed by the gentry Shu. Shu changed the name of the temple to "Shujia ancestral hall" in private. His two daughters converted to guangmiao, the abbot of Qixia Temple. They practiced at home and took care of incense lanterns in the ancestral hall.

In 1932, the abbot of guangmiao in Qixia Temple expired, and the second virgin of Shu family was raised in the ancestral temple. Later, due to the addition of Zen houses, three inscriptions of Qianming Temple rebuilt in the 36th year of Qianlong reign of Qing Dynasty were excavated from the ground. Guangmiao appealed to the local court to accept the case of Shu's private occupation of Qianming temple. With the support of Guiyang celebrities Ping gang and Xiang Yi, Shu returned the temple and restored the name of Qianming temple. Guangmiao, as abbot, raised money from various sources and built the temple of Amitabha, which became the main hall for Buddhist rituals. The new Sutra library contains 593 copies of Qisha collection and 414 copies of Pinjia collection. After the Mituo hall is the dizang hall. Others, such as the Abbot's room, the guest hall, and the monk's hut, are complete. Guangmiao once preached the precepts twice.

Buddhist culture

After guangmiao's death in 1946, xukuan took over as abbot. He taught huzujie and shamiyjie once in succession. Many monks and nuns from the city and other counties came here to ask for precepts. Every major Buddhist festival or lunar new year, Qianming temple holds three conversion ceremonies for believers, each time dozens or hundreds of people. On major festivals such as Sakyamuni's birthday and three Guanyin meetings every year, about thousands of four disciples participated in the activities.

Qianming temple has always been an important place for Buddhist activities in Guiyang. During the Anti Japanese War, eminent monk Master Taixu and Zen master Dade Xuyun passed through Guiyang, both of them preached in the temple, and the audience was enthusiastic. In 1943, he held two training courses for monks and nuns in the temple. In 1944, haichaoyin, a monthly Buddhist magazine, was moved from Shanghai to Qianming temple for distribution. It was published twice, and then moved back to Shanghai. In 1945, living Buddha Shenglu of Tibet taught "Esoteric Buddhism" in Qianming temple. Wang Xizhong, Shuangqing, tuolusheng and other well-known people were given the "Esoteric Buddhism". At the beginning of 1949, Guizhou Buddhist branch was set up in Qianming temple to issue membership cards and badges to monks and nuns in the whole city, and Qianming Buddhist College was set up to teach in the temple, which was closed due to lack of funds.

in disrepair

After liberation (after 1949), Qianming temple was in disrepair for a long time. During the "Cultural Revolution", the Buddhist statues were destroyed, the Scriptures were burned, and the monks were separated. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the religious policy was implemented. Since 1983, the provincial and municipal people's governments have allocated nearly 1 million yuan for the restoration of Daxiong hall, Dabei Pavilion, sutra collection building, guest hall, Zhaitang, senliao, office building, Mountain Gate, etc. the four disciples of Buddhism have donated net funds to rebuild Sakyamuni's sitting statue in Daxiong hall, which is 2.3 meters high, with Ananda and JIAYE standing beside it. On the left and right sides of the back wall, there are statues of Puxian and Manjusri, with 18 Arhats on both sides, solemn and solemn. In the great mercy Pavilion at the back of the hall, the statue of Avalokitesvara with thousand hands is remodeled. It is 2.85 meters high and has a kind manner. Shancai and Longnv stand on both sides. On the side of the pavilion, there are guest hall, sengliao and fragrant kitchen. The new three story Sutra building is magnificent with its cornices and corners. There are one Chinese Tripitaka, one Dunhuang Tripitaka, another Fangshan stone Sutra, Taiwan's Dazheng Tripitaka and more than 1000 other Buddhist sutras. The lower level is the Jade Buddha Hall, which is about 1.5 meters high for a jade Buddha from Myanmar. In order to meet the religious needs of Buddhists, the temple is equipped with a logistics office. The kitchen in the temple provides vegetables and tea, which is convenient for tourists. There are more than ten monks in the temple. On October 15 of the 1992 lunar calendar (Buddha auspicious day), the opening ceremony of jade Buddha and the promotion ceremony of Abbot zongman was held.

Cultural relics protection

In 1981, Qianming temple was listed as one of the first municipal cultural relics protection units in Guiyang. In 1983, it was changed into a cultural relic protection unit in Guizhou Province. In the same year, it was listed as a national key Buddhist temple in the Han nationality area by the Religious Affairs Bureau of the State Council and opened to the outside world.

The current Abbot

The famous abbot of Qianming temple is master Xingzhi and guangmiao.

The current abbot is master zongman. Born in 1923 in Xinhui, Guangdong Province, he is a member of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, deputy to the Municipal People's Congress, director of the Chinese Buddhist Association, vice president of the provincial Buddhist Association, and President of the municipal Buddhist Association. He was born in 1962. He is a scholar of Guizhou. He is a member of Nanming District CPPCC and a director of the provincial Buddhist Association.

Ribbon cutting ceremony

On the morning of September 28, 2006, Guiyang held a grand ribbon cutting ceremony for the completion of Qianming Temple restoration project. Master Jie Ren, vice president of China Buddhist Association, Xianggen badenduoji living Buddha and Huba longzhuangmeng elder, Zong Jiashun, director of Academic Affairs Department of China Buddhist Association, master Jie Ming, President of Shaanxi Buddhist Association, master Dao Jian, vice president of Chongqing Buddhist Association, Wang Siqi, deputy director of minzong Committee of CPPCC, and provincial and municipal leaders Wu Jiafu, Tang Shili, Yuan Zhou, Han Zhengli, Wang Yaguang and Yang Zhehui More than 1000 people attended the ribbon cutting ceremony, including Li Zhong, Huang Naizhu, Zhushan elders, eminent monks and believers from Hong Kong, Macao and other Buddhist circles at home and abroad. The ceremony was presided over by Li Tao, deputy secretary of Guiyang municipal Party committee.

Release activities

After the ceremony, a "large-scale environmental protection and release activity of caring for mother river" was held. Believers who came to the ceremony took part in the environmental protection and release activity.

Address: Yangming Road, Nanming District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

Longitude: 106.71446149551

Latitude: 26.569819846733

Chinese PinYin : Qian Ming Si