Pantuo Temple

Pantuo Temple

Pantuo temple is located in pantuo village, 5 km west of Qionglai City, Chengdu. Because there is a big rock, so named. From Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, it was a famous Buddhist resort

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history

Pantuo temple was built in 820 ad (in the 15th year of Yuanhe reign of emperor Xianzong of Tang Dynasty). It was originally called Kaiyuan Temple and was changed to pantuo temple in Ming Dynasty. It has a history of 1200 years. In 1392, the temple was rebuilt in the 25th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. It was changed into pantuo Temple because of its huge rock. It is said that from Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, it was a famous Buddhist resort. With the vicissitudes of time and the rise and fall of human resources, after liberation, the monasteries have been abandoned and the monks have disappeared. After the cultural revolution, only one main hall of the Ming Dynasty, three statues of the Great Buddha, fifty-three murals and a few cliff statues in the temple remain.

In July 1985, Chengdu municipal government listed the pantuo temple as a municipal cultural relic protection unit. In 1989, the main hall was repaired and protected. In 1995, Mr. Wang Zemin, a private entrepreneur, donated 2 million yuan to supervise the construction. It took three years to rebuild the main hall, Guanyin hall and Sansheng hall on the old site. He also built canteens and houses, improved water and electricity facilities, and invited craftsmen to reshape the Buddha's body, which enabled the temple to reappear its vitality.

In order to strengthen the protection of the temple cultural relics, in 1995, an imitation wood rainproof shed was built for the cliff statues in the temple. In 2001, the temple walls were built, the closed walls were built on both sides of the main hall, the original walls were reinforced, and the murals in the hall were repaired and protected. In May 2006, the cliff statues of pantuo temple, together with those of shizhushan and huazhisi in Datong Township, were collectively called Qionglai grottoes and listed as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units. The main hall was built later.

In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, the cultural relics of pantuo temple were seriously damaged. In 2010, the relevant departments carried out rescue restoration and maintenance on the cliff statues, main hall, clay sculptures and murals of pantuo temple, strengthened the protection of rain proof and drainage, and built new gates, middle gates, pavilions and management rooms, and strengthened the environmental improvement of the whole temple. This Guanyin hall should have been built later.

This huge stone bag in front of the temple, I don't know if it was the rock of that year. Engraved with the word "Fu Shi", it may be said that this big stone was created by the Buddhist monk Fu in those days.

There are six existing statues on the cliff of pantuo temple, including 1091 statues, all of which are stone carvings of Tang Dynasty. In addition to the "Big Buddha niche", there are also five niches behind the hall of Ming Dynasty. Among them, three niches are well preserved, one is called thousand Buddha niche, one is the Western Pure Land Change, and the other is the tantric statue.

In July 1985, the people's Government of Chengdu announced that pantuo temple is a municipal cultural relic protection unit.

structure

The existing main hall was rebuilt in 1392, the 25th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, and cultivated in 1437, the 2nd year of Zhengtong in Ming Dynasty. Its shape is a single eaves Xieshan style, and its width is four columns and three bays, and its depth is the same; its plane is square, and its side length is 9.95 meters. In the center of the hall, there are clay sculptures of "the three saints of the west" (which is called "the three saints of Mitha") in the middle, amitabha in the middle, Guanyin on the left, and Dashi on the right. The three statues all sit on the lotus terrace, about 2 meters high.

There are murals of Ming Dynasty on the four walls of the hall, which is a precious cultural heritage. The content of the murals is the Buddhist story of "fifty-three good talents". Each story in the mural is separated by mountains and rivers, trees, clouds, houses and pavilions, which makes the upper and lower parts of the mural connected and independent. Its powerful and fluent strokes, gorgeous colors, well-organized picture structure, meticulous characterization, similar to a precious classical comic. There are four caves of cliff statues before and after the temple. The first cave in front of the temple is one Buddha and two Bodhisattvas published in the 15th year of the Yuan Dynasty. On the left and right outer walls are engraved with floating pictures and a group of Jiyue. One of the five caves at the back of the temple is "Thousand Buddhas", the other is "pure land change", and the other is Tantric statue, which also has Tang style.

Address: Xihe Township, Qionglai City, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 103.41512276934

Latitude: 30.438836100299

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