Quezang Temple

Quezang Temple

Quezang temple, which is called "quezang Yuxi unchanging island" in Tibetan and later changed its name to "Buddhist hongyangzhou", is located 20 kilometers north of Huzhu Tu Autonomous County in Qinghai Province. It is also called quezang beach, where today's Nanmenxia town government is located.

Quezang temple is located 3 kilometers away from Nanmen Reservoir Scenic Area, belonging to Lama (yellow Religion) temple. The East and West Mountains of the temple are environmentally friendly. From the whole mountain, you can see that the right side is like a dragon circling around, and the left side is like a phoenix spreading its wings. In front of the temple, there is a lion mountain arch. The pines and cypresses on the mountain are green. In front of the temple, there are thousands of acres of fertile land.

Qianlong 30 years (AD 1765), the Qing Dynasty granted "Guangjiao Temple" plaque, its magnificent building, has "to the Tibetan temple, Beijing do not go" reputation.

Main building: Sakyamuni thousand Buddha Hall, three stories high, with 99 rooms in total. The roof is paved with gold-plated copper tiles and decorated with ten gold-plated copper dragons. It is commonly known as "golden tile hall". There are gold-plated copper statues of Sakyamuni and zongkaba in the hall. There are also gold pagodas, silver pagodas, golden lanterns and other Buddhist relics.

brief introduction

The temple is surrounded by two mountains in the East and West. On the right, it is like a dragon circling the bed. On the left, it is like a phoenix spreading its wings. On the mountain, the pines and cypresses are green. In front of the temple, there are thousands of acres of fertile land, green.

religious activities

The main Scripture affairs and learning activities of quezang temple in the whole year are the praying Dharma meeting of the first month of the first month of the lunar calendar from the 4th to the 17th. During this period, there were activities of sun drying Buddha and jumping in debt on the eighth and fourteenth day of the lunar new year, and on the fifteenth day, butter flowers were displayed. From the 10th of February to the 10th of March is the spring menstrual period, and the activities of debating the classics will be held. From February 21 to March 22, it will be the time wheel Vajra prayer meeting. During this period, the seventh day and the fourteenth day of the lunar new year were called "saga" and "qiaga" respectively, which were the days of observing the classics. From the first to the fourteenth of April, there will be a ceremony for Vajra of Daweide. There will be activities of opening up and protecting the Buddha. April 15 to May 15 is the summer menstruation period. May 11-25 is the Jimi Vajra prayer meeting. The June prayer meeting will be held from the 2nd to 10th of June. During this period, the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third day of the third. From June 15 to July 30, he lived in summer to study the classics. From the first to the fourteenth of August, it is the Shengle Vajra ceremony. The first to the 30th of September is the period of learning menstruation in autumn, during which there is a 7-day ritual activity in the iron city.

From October 15 to the end of the month, there will be a recitation meeting for Wugong Festival. November is the winter menstruation period. In December, 28 monks made butter flowers for 14 days, usually with five flower racks, which were displayed in front of the thousand Buddha Hall on the 15th of the first month. At that time, people around and around Huangyuan and Huangzhong will have a very lively meeting to worship Buddha. Now, this kind of mass religious activities has gradually become a temple fair with both ethnic trade and cultural activities, and other economic activities have also been simplified.

On May 25, 2006, as an ancient building of the Qing Dynasty, kezang temple was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Construction and restoration

Kezang temple was built in 1649, the sixth year of Shunzhi reign of Qing Dynasty, from 1578-1651, the first of its kind. In the first year of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, it was destroyed by the luobuzangdanjin incident and rebuilt later. In 1765, the Qing government granted a plaque to Guangjiao Temple (also known as Guangji Temple), built a nine dragon wall, and later granted a plaque to Xianglun Yonghu. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, it was destroyed again by war. In the 13th year of Guangxu reign (1887), the fifth tsangrasantu Teng shezhunima (1859-1913) was rebuilt, with more than 270 monks. Before 1958, there were more than 150 permanent monks in the temple, including the great Sutra hall, the small Sutra hall, the thousand Buddha Hall, and the larang (residence) and jiwaang (residence) of living Buddhas such as quezang, Zhangjia, saichi, Guihua, Lianhua, Dandou, aqun, Magan, Xiaer, etc. There are Xianzong and Shilun colleges in the temple, which adopt the guomangzhacang course of Drepung temple. There are Xiaqiong temple in Hualong County, zhazang temple in Huangyuan County, Baima temple in Guide county of Hainan Province, Dulan temple in Wulan County of Haixi Prefecture, quezangmu temple in halasha County of Yanqi County of Xinjiang, summer Sumu Temple in Hejing county and so on. They are very popular among Tibetan, Tu and Mongolian people in Haidong, Haixi, Haibei of Qinghai Province influence. The main believers are the Tibetan, Mongolian and Tu people in Nanmenxia, Huangcheng and sujitan in haibeimenyuan County, Gangcha county and Dulan in Haixi county. However, the temple owner has a living Buddha, which is one of the earliest Hutuktu granted by Qing Dynasty in Qinghai religious circles. The first is nanjiebangjue, the second is rosandan bejianzan, the third is awantu dengangxiu, the fourth is rosantu dengreji He was born in 1914. He is now the vice president of the provincial Buddhist Association and vice president of the Buddhist Academy. Except for a part of the temple, other buildings were demolished in 1958. Approved to open in June 1980, one Sutra hall and 24 monasteries have been rebuilt.

In recent years, the Qianfo Hall (juekang) has been rebuilt on the basis of the original 4-pillar Sutra hall in quezanglarang. The hall is of brick and wood structure, with a total of 42 upper and lower floors. Among the newly-built temples in eastern Qinghai, it is comparable to the Sutra Hall of Wendu temple in Xunhua County. There are 29 monks in the temple (17 of them are Wande), and Han Chenglie is the director of the temple management committee.

Address: benlangzhaxitan, Nanmenxia Township, Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai Province

Longitude: 101.90556692058

Latitude: 37.003822245008

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